Information begins with facts, which can be assembled to identify
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executive's INfact.
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1. Wealthiest person on Forbes Magazine 2007 World Billionaires
List, replacing, after 13 years, Bill Gates in the No. 1 position |
Warren Buffett
2. Total net worth, up $900 billion from 2006, of the 2007
billionaire's list | $4.4 trillion
3. Age of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, the youngest member of
the list | 23
4. Country, at 14 percent average annual salary increase, with the
fastest rising wage rate in the world | India
5. Number of Fortune 500 CEOs who are Baby Boomers (born between
1946 and 1954) | 427
6. Number of Fortune 500 companies which have official blogs | 54
7. Number of Fortune 500 CEOs who have a blog | 3
8. Average starting salary of newly minted MBAs | $92,360 plus
starting bonus
9. Number of business schools offering degrees in professional golf
management | 20
10. Minimum handicap required to be admitted to Florida
State's golf management program | 12
11. Golf score students must shoot over two consecutive rounds in
order to graduate | 78
12. Total U.S. exports in 2007, expressed as a percentage of gross
domestic product | 11.8%
13. Worst states in which to do business, as ranked by a poll of
650 CEOs | California and New York
14. Best states | Texas and Nevada
15. "Liberty" score of Hong Kong, the country ranked as
the most "economically friendly" in the world | 90.3
16. Rank of U.S. | 80.6
17. Number of Major League Baseball players implicated in the
steroid scandal who were caught because they had paid by personal check
| 16
18. Total assets Vanguard Group added during Jack Brennan's
12-year tenure as CEO | $1.1 trillion
19. Projected number of enclosed shopping malls that will be built
in the U.S. in 2008 | 0
20. Number of CEOs of the 500 largest companies in North America
who stepped down in the fourth quarter of 2007 | 13
21. Percentage change from the corresponding period in 2006 | +50%
22. Involuntary departures among Global 500 CEOs in 2007 | 37%
23. In 2006 | 17%
24. The average tenure of CEOs who exited office in 2007 | 6 years,
8 months
25. Average tenure in 2006 | 8 years, 6 months
26. Change in durable goods manufacturing in January 2008 compared
with the previous month | -5.3%
27. Change in U.S. residential construction employment since March
2006, if undocumented immigrants are counted | -15%
28. Change if undocumented immigrants are excluded | -4%
29. Cost of average domestic business trip in 2008 | $1,110
30. Cost of average international business trip | $3,171
31. Ratio of U.S. spending in grocery stores to that in restaurants
| 1:1
32. City with the costliest daily parking rates | New York City:
$42 (midtown)
33. Of the 10 biggest corporate buyout offers in 2008, the number
that are "hostile" or "unsolicited" | 4
34. Number of new Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC)
listings Amex completed in 2007, raising a combined $10 billion | 50
35. Final year manufacture of incandescent light bulbs will be
allowed by law | 2014
36. The search term most googled in China, beating out "What
is love?" (question ranked at the top of Google's global list)
| "What is a blue chip?"
37. Percent of $6.9 trillion in U.S. bank deposits that are not
insured | 38%
38. Total value of municipal bonds issued in January 2008 | $16.5
billion
39. Change from amount issued in January 2007 | -47%
40. Number of individual life insurance policies purchased in 2006
| 10.9 million
41. Number purchased in 2002 | 14.7 million
John Kador can be contacted at jkador@jkador.com
Sources: 1-2 Forbes; 3 ECA International; 4 The Boomer Consumer
Blog; 5-6 Fortune; 7 Businessweek; 8 Graduate Management Admission
Council; 9 Businessweek; 10-11 Florida State; 12 Bureau of Labor
Statistics; 13-14 Chief Executive; 15-16 The Heritage Council, 2008
Index of Economic Freedom; 17 Mitchell Report; 18 Businessweek; 19
International Council of Shopping Centers; 20-25 Weber Shandwick; 26 US
Commerce Department; 27-28 Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc; 29-30 American
Express Business Travel; 31 Economic Research Service, US Department of
Agriculture; 32 Colliers International; 33 USA Today; 34 Businessweek;
35 Department of Commerce; 36 Registered Rep; 37 FDIC; 38-39 Municipal
Market Advisors; 40-41 American Council of Life Insurers
Compiled by JOHN KADOR
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