Good to Great:Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t:Characters

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Good To Great Companies (11 Total)

  • Fannie Mae
  • Gillette
  • Walgreens For more than 40 years, Walgreens was no more than an average company, tracking the general market. Then in 1975 (out of the blue!) Walgreens began to climb. And climb. And climb. It just kept climbing. From December 31, 1975 to January 1, 2000, one dollar invested in Walgreens beat one dollar invested in Intel by nearly 2 times, General Electric by nearly 5 times, and Coca-Cola by nearly 8 times. It beat the general stock market by more than 15 times.
  • Wells Fargo
  • Kimberly Clark
  • Circuit City