Using the SEC Data that was mentioned previously, I created a graphical network of which companies share board members and CEOs, a sort of social network of companies.
Click on the image to see the full-sized version. There’s a lot of other data represented there including genders, market caps, revenue and locations.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Fascinating, yet slightly alarming.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:47 am
not (necessarily) alarming at all… if you run a large company, who is better equipped to understand what is good for your company than someone who has experience managing a company that large?
i bet that’s not a skillset common to even 0.01% of the US workforce.
of course if one buys into the ridiculous mantra that big corporations are evil, and profits are bad, then i guess that all would look scary.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:14 am
http://www.theyrule.net/ has a Flash navigator for this information (using 2004 data).
April 13th, 2008 at 7:47 am
It might be interesting to add in some government organizations.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:12 am
What tool do you use to create the diagram? Very nice.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Love this! I totally have a big company fetish.
Oo. Someone already mentioned TheyRule.net. One of my favorite time-wasters ever.
Using size for revenue is interesting, but what about the number of connections? It’s hard to see who has the most connections. Also, a cool thing that TheyRule.net does is to link people to companies – the mapping can often yield all sorts of interesting degrees-of-separation results for orthogonal issues (e.g. Republican vs. Democrats, etc.)