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Creating Real Wealth: CEOs at the top of CE's fourth MVA ranking inspire employees, please customers, and manage to make money for shareholders even in tough times. (Performance Measurement).


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 1:52, "He has put down the mighty," pretty well sums up this year's ranking of CEOs by the Market Value Added Market Value Added (MVA) is the difference between the current market value of a firm and the capital contributed by investors. If MVA is positive, the firm has added value. If it is negative, the firm has destroyed value.  (MVA MVA
abbr.
motor vehicle accident


MVA Motor vehicular/vehicle accident, see there
) system. The method reflects the amount by which shareholder wealth has grown or, when MVA is negative, shrunk shrunk  
v.
A past tense and a past participle of shrink.


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Verb

a past tense and past participle of shrink

shrunk, shrunken shrink
. Four times during the past three years, Chief Executive magazine has teamed with New York City New York City: see New York, city.
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consulting company

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 & Co. to rank CEOs of the country's largest companies based on the changes in MVA.

Why rank CEOs by MVA? "The market value added is the bottom line for any company. All of the other period-by-period financial measures are of interest only to the extent that they tell us something about what the market value added will be in the future or has been in the past," says Michael Jensen Michael Cole Jensen joined the of the Harvard Business School in 1990. Currently, he is the managing director in charge of organizational strategy at Monitor Group, a strategy consulting firm. , professor emeritus e·mer·i·tus  
adj.
Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement: a professor emeritus.

n. pl.
 of the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.  and head of the organizational strategy practice at the Monitor Group, Cambridge Cambridge, city, Canada
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, MA.

Of course, the job of wealth creation is only effective when the wealth lasts. During the recent tech stock bubble A bit in bubble memory or a symbol in a bubble chart. , many CEOs seemed to create investor wealth. But that wealth has proved fleeting. Consider Noam Lotan Lotan (lō`tăn), in the Bible, duke of Edom. , the CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of MRV Communications Overview
MRV NASDAQ: MRVC is a company that designs, manufactures, sells, distributes, integrates and supports communication equipment and services, and optical components.
, a maker of fiber-optic See fiber optics.  components and other Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 infrastructure equipment. Last year, when the new economy was hot, Lotan ranked No. 23 on the MVA list. He had created $600 of new wealth for each dollar of capital in the company when he took the helm. What a difference a year makes. Since the last ranking, the CEO has lost about $230 for each dollar of beginning capital, and Lotan ranks No. 914 on the MVA list.

"Very often, CEOs get sucked into a gold rush that the markets, analysts, and others bring about, and trying to meet those expectations, they end up taking actions that destroy value. There are lots of those companies around," says Jensen Noun 1. Jensen - modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950)
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
.

A year ago, CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures
CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) 
 was a well-known well-known
adj.
1. Widely known; familiar or famous: a well-known performer.

2. Fully known: well-known facts.
 incubator incubator, apparatus for the maintenance of controlled conditions in which eggs can be hatched artificially. Incubator houses with double walls of mud, a fireroom, and several compartments each holding about 6,000 hens' eggs were developed in ancient times; the  of e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers.  startups, its CEO David S. Wetherell ranked No. 5 on the MVA table, right behind Yahoo's Tim Koogle
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. This year finds Wetherell in a race to the bottom. CMGI shareholders are $6 billion poorer this year than last, partly as a result of expensive acquisitions.

A similar problem with acquisitions sent Bernard Ebbers Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941 in Edmonton, Alberta), is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company.  of WorldCom The former name of MCI. Based in Jackson, MS, WorldCom, Inc. was a major, international telecommunications carrier. It was founded in 1983 by Bernard Ebbers as Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS), a reseller of AT&T WATS lines to small businesses.  down the value stairs. He placed first among value-creating CEOs for the past two years. This year, he's he's  

1. Contraction of he is: He's going to school today.

2. Contraction of he has: He's already been to the museum.
 last. A victim of the bear market? There's more to it than that. Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications.  stocks have taken a tumble, but some telecom CEOs still managed to create value for their shareholders. Most notably, Robert Price Robert Price may refer to:
  • Robert M. Price (born 1954), American theologian and author
  • Bob Price (Texas politician) (1927 – 2004), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas
 of Price Communications Corp., who was ranked No. 32 last year, in 2001 climbed to No. 25, even as Ebbers fell.

As the contrast between Ebbers and Price suggests, getting to the top or bottom of the MVA rankings isn't is·n't  

Contraction of is not.


isn't is not
isn't be
 just a matter of stock market luck. Despite the hammering Hammering

The rapid and concentrated sale of a stock thought to be overvalued by the market. It performed by investors and speculators who beleive that prices are inflated and that a period of liquidation is imminent.
 tech stocks have taken lately, some CEOs in technology industries have continued to make money for their shareholders. Dell Computer's Michael Dell Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc. Biography
Early life and education
The son of an orthodontist, Dell was born in to an upper-class Jewish family and attended Herod Elementary School in Houston,
, Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954 in Columbus, Indiana) was the Chairman of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. , Qualcomm's Irwin Jacobs The name Irwin Jacobs refers to multiple people
  • Irwin M. Jacobs, chairman and former chief executive officer of Qualcomm
  • Irwin L. Jacobs, Minneapolis-based investor and chairman of Genmar Holdings
, and Oracle's Lawrence Lawrence.

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Noun 1.
 all once again landed in the top 25 on the MVA list. AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services.  Time Warner's Steve Case Steve Case (born August 21, 1958) is a businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). He reached his highest profile when he played an instrumental role in AOL's merger with Time Warner in 2000.  moves from second place last year to first in 2001.

CEOs at the pinnacle pinnacle (pĭn`ĭkəl), minor architectural motif of vertical tapering shape, usually crowning a pier, buttress, or gable. Although sometimes it appears in Renaissance design, as in the Certosa di Pavia, it is almost exclusively a medieval  of the MVA list "keep a close eye on and are guided in every decision they make by what creates value and what does not," Harvard's Jensen says. "No matter what the market is favoring favoring

an animal is said to be favoring a leg when it avoids putting all of its weight on the limb. A part of being lame in a limb.
 in the short run, they make decisions to create value in the long run."

Even the most troubled sectors have CEOs who excel at Verb 1. excel at - be good at; "She shines at math"
shine at

excel, surpass, stand out - distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math"
 creating value. Roughly half the CEOs in each industry fell above the ranking's median, and half below, points out Al Ehrbar, partner at Stern Stern

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 Stewart. "Industry is not destiny Destiny

goddess of destiny of mankind. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 78]

See : Fate
," he says.

Even in some demonstrably de·mon·stra·ble  
adj.
1. Capable of being demonstrated or proved: demonstrable truths.

2. Obvious or apparent: demonstrable lies.
 poor-performing industries, such as energy, materials, and capital goods Capital Goods

Any goods used by an organization to produce other goods.

Notes:
Examples of capital goods include office buildings, equipment, and machinery.
See also: Capital Expenditure, Disinvestment



Capital goods
, where most companies are in the bottom half of the rankings, a few CEOs manage to stand out. In materials, for example, more than 80 percent of the companies rank below the median for value creation. But Peter McCausland, CEO of Airgas Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), headquartered in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, through its subsidiaries, is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases (delivered in packaged or cylinder form), and hardgoods (welding, safety and related products). , a distributor of medical, industrial, and specialty A contract under seal.

A specialty is a written document that has been sealed and delivered and is given as security for the payment of a specifically indicated debt.
 gases, is a rose among the thorns. McCausland climbed 183 rungs to No. 149. Since moving into the corner office in 1987, McCausland has managed to multiply mul·ti·ply
v.
1. To increase the amount, number, or degree of.

2. To breed or propagate.
 shareholder wealth tenfold tenfold
Adjective

1. having ten times as many or as much

2. composed of ten parts

Adverb

by ten times as many or as much

Adj. 1.
. He now ranks respectably re·spect·a·ble  
adj.
1. Meriting respect or esteem; worthy.

2. Of or appropriate to good or proper behavior or conventional conduct.

3. Of moderately good quality: respectable work.
 within the top 15 percent of all CEOs.

The diversified financials The diversified financial services segment includes a range of consumer and commercially-oriented companies offering a wide variety of products and services, including various lending products (such as home equity loans and credit cards), insurance, and securities and investment  sector also has its share of winners and losers. Capital One's Richard Fairbank Richard Fairbank founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is currently the Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard International, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S. Region Board of Directors.  moves to No. 136 this year from No. 180 last year, while Providian's Shailesh Mehta Mehta is a common Indian surname that is especially common in Gujarat and other parts of western India.

The word is derived from the Sanskrit word 'mahita' meaning ‘praised’ or ‘great’ (from mah-‘to praise or magnify’).
 falls to a dismal dis·mal  
adj.
1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary: dismal weather; took a dismal view of the economy.

2.
 No. 833 from No. 166 last year. This is striking given that Mehta, who became CEO of Providian Providian Financial Corporation was one of the leading credit card issuers in the United States. It was headquartered in San Francisco, California, Providian had more than 10 million card holders and was ranked as the ninth largest credit card issuer.  in 1988, has been in the CEO chair seven years longer than Fairbank Fairbank is a surname, and may refer to:
  • Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist
  • Christopher Fairbank, British actor
  • Janet Ayer Fairbank, American author
  • Janet Fairbank (1903-1947), American operatic singer
  • Jennifer Fairbank, American Miss Hawaii
  • John K.
. Since MVA measures the value created during a CEO'S tenure tenure, in education
tenure, in education, a guarantee of the permanence of a college or university teacher's position, awarded upon successful completion of a probationary period, usually seven years.
, those CEOs who have been on the job longer have a better shot at the top of the list, simply because they've they've  

Contraction of they have.

they've have
 had more time to create value. Moreover, Providian and Capital One have business strategies so similar that Mehta said earlier this year, "If anyone comes close to our skill set it would be Capital One." Yet Capital One s shareholders are richer than they were a year ago, while Providian's are poorer. In late October October: see month. , Mehta promised shareholders he would leave the CEO post as soon as a replacement was found.

In the software and services industry, a number of CEOs under pressure from investors left their jobs. But shareholders applaud Siebel For the tech company, see .

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Siebel aircraft included:
  • Siebel Fh 104 Hallore, medium transport
 Systems' Thomas Siebel Thomas M. Siebel (born November 20, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois) is the chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company with interests in commercial real estate, agribusiness, global investment management, and philanthropy.  and Oracle's Ellison, both of whom still top the ranks of value creators. "It's all about being able to do more with less--sell more, service more, spend less. It all shows up in the bottom line," says Ellison. "My most important issue is customer satisfaction, but a satisfied customer who doesn't does·n't  

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 buy anything isn't interesting. To me the sign of a satisfied customer is one who buys more of the product." At eight-year-old Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. , CEO Siebel also grows market value by creating a culture that seeks to ensure customer success. "I personally spend 60 percent of my time visiting customers, checking on the status of their projects, making sure they're they're  

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they're be
 succeeding, and finding out what I can do to help. That sends a very strong message to our 8,000 employees about what's important here," notes Siebel.

Best Buy's Richard Schulze
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, who landed at No. 7 this year, put the retail industry into the top 25 elite, and also bests a number of his industry peers. Schulze Schulze is a common German family name. It may refer to:
  • Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch
  • Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840 - 1921)
  • Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761 - 1833)
  • Klaus Schulze
  • Richard Schulze (disambiguation)
  • Willibald Schulze
  • J.
, who over the course of 35 years built Best Buy into the country's top consumer electronics specialty retailer from scratch scratch  
v. scratched, scratch·ing, scratch·es

v.tr.
1. To make a thin shallow cut or mark on (a surface) with a sharp instrument.

2. To use the nails or claws to dig or scrape at.
, chalks up his place on the ranking to several factors, among them: "Surrounding sur·round  
tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds
1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.

2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication.

n.
 myself with quality people [who are] empowered to create expanded value; providing an environment where quality people can thrive and grow; staying close to the customer; and understanding that success is more than just looking at the income statement."

Schulze's focus on value-creation basics has allowed the company to accomplish what conventional wisdom about retailing thought impossible, says Stern Stewart consultant Daniel Miller People called Daniel Miller include:
  • Daniel Miller (footballer) footballer for London Stonewall Lions
  • Daniel Miller (anthropologist) (born 1954), anthropologist at University College London
. "Common sense says that as margins increase, capital turns should slow," he notes. "Best Buy has delivered three things that shouldn't should·n't  

Contraction of should not.


shouldn't should not
shouldn't should
 be able to be done at the same time: tremendous sales growth, improved margins, and improved capital turns. It turns over capital faster than the Wal-Marts and Targets of the world."

In the automobile automobile, self-propelled vehicle used for travel on land. The term is commonly applied to a four-wheeled vehicle designed to carry two to six passengers and a limited amount of cargo, as contrasted with a truck, which is designed primarily for the transportation of  components industry, mirror maker Fred (Friendly Rollabout Engineered for Doctors) A mobile medical conferencing unit. See videoconferencing.

1. FRED - Robert Carr. Language used by Framework, Ashton-Tate.
2.
 Bauer Bauer is a German family name. It translates to peasant or farmer (agricola in Latin).

Notable people of this name include:
  • Rothschild family, Bauer is the former surname of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the family founder
 of Gentex reached the No. 16 slot. The manufacturer trains staff to think like owners, Bauer says. In fact, they are owners. "We've we've  

Contraction of we have.

we've have
 given stock options to all of our salaried people for close to two decades and those who have not been quick to exercise their options have more than doubled their salary," Bauer explains. Even technical and production employees understand that their business decisions affect not only the economic position of the company, but their own personal economic position.

A study by the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan's Center for Automotive Research released in September September: see month.  2001 concurs. "Revenue growth, return on assets Return on assets (ROA)

Indicator of profitability. Determined by dividing net income for the past 12 months by total average assets. Result is shown as a percentage. ROA can be decomposed into return on sales (net income/sales) multiplied by asset utilization (sales/assets).
, and cash flows are well understood by Gentex engineering, financial, and manufacturing communities," the study reports. The researchers describe Gentex's culture as "Silicon Valley meets the Motor City." Bauer himself doesn't talk in those terms-he merely says, "I think Wall Street views our company favorably fa·vor·a·ble  
adj.
1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds.

2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis.

3.
, but we don't don't  

1. Contraction of do not.

2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not.

n.
A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts.
 follow the fad of the moment." CEOs who create sustainable wealth for shareholders tend to have that in common.
25 WORST MVAs

Rank    Rank
as of  as of
09/01  12/99  Name                Company

 916       1  Bernard J Ebbers    WorldCom
 915       5  David S Wetherell   CMGI
 914      23  Noam Lotan          MRV Comm
 913      19  L Lowry Mays        Clear Channel
 912      33  Sanjiv S Sidhu      12 Technologies
 911      40  Stratton D Sclavos  VeriSign
 910       4  Timothy Koogle      Yahoo
 909      58  D C Peterschmidt    Inktomi
 908     N/A  Arun Sarin          InfoSpace
 907     N/A  Shelby W Bonnie     CNET Networks
 906     916  Richard M Scrushy   HealthSouth
 905     146  Eric A Benhamou     3Com
 904      23  Pehong Chen         Broadvision
 903     903  R Brad Martin       Saks
 902     N/A  Steven A Balimer    Microsoft
 901     912  Dennis B Gillings   Quintiles Transnat
 900     N/A  Jozef Straus        JDS Uniphase
 899     119  William C France    Intl Speedway
 898      83  Robert L Bailey     PMC-Sierra
 897      70  C M Cotsakos        E*Trade Group
 896     911  H W Huizenga        Boca Resorts
 895     208  Kieran E Burke      Six Flags
 894     258  Joseph R Ettore     Ames Dept Stores
 893      77  S A Garofalo        Metromedia Fiber
 892      69  Warren V Musser     Safeguard Scientif

Rank
as of
09/01  Industry

 916   Telecomm Services
 915   Software & Services
 914   Tech Hardware & Eq
 913   Media
 912   Software & Services
 911   Software & Services
 910   Software & Services
 909   Software & Services
 908   Software & Services
 907   Software & Services
 906   Health Care Eq & Serv
 905   Tech Hardware & Eq
 904   Software & Services
 903   Retailing
 902   Software & Services
 901   Health Care Eq & Serv
 900   Tech Hardware & Eq
 899   Hotels, Rest & Leisure
 898   Tech Hardware & Eq
 897   Diversified Financials
 896   Hotels, Rest & Leisure
 895   Hotels, Rest & Leisure
 894   Retailing
 893   Telecomm Services
 892   Software & Services
25 BEST MVAs

Rank   Rank
as of  as of
09/01  12/99  Name             Company            Industry

  1      2    S M Case         AOL Time Warner    Media
  2      9    D A Miller       Biomet             Health Care Eq & Serv
  3      8    B T Golisano     Paychex            Comm Serv & Sup
  4      3    K Alexander      Comverse Techn     Tech Hardware & Eq
  5      6    L J Ellison      Oracle             Software & Services
  6    105    R D Walter       Cardinal Health    Health Care Eq & Serv
  7     13    R M Schulze      Best Buy           Retailing
  8     35    H Solomon        Forest Labs        Pharmaceut & Biotech
  9      7    I Mark Jacobs    Qualcomm           Techn Hardware & Eq
 10     18    R H Swanson Jr   Linear Technology  Tech Hardware &Eq
 11     10    D J Warmenhoven  Network Appliance  Tech Hardware & Eq
 12     22    J F Gilfford     Maxim Integrated   Tech Hardware & Eq
 13     31    J W Brown        Stryker            Health Care Eq & Serv
 14     21    R J Roberts      Comcast            Media
 15     11    M S Dell         Dell Computer      Tech Hardware & Eq
 16     28    F Bauer          Gentex             Automobiles & Comp
 17     25    T M Siebel       Siebel Systems     Software & Services
 18     12    S G McNealy      Sun Microsystems   Tech Hardware & Eq
 19     46    H M Messmer Jr   Robert Half Intl   Comm Serv & Sup
 20     15    J C Morgan       Applied Materials  Tech Hardware &Eq
 21     45    J Shacknai       Medicis            Pharmaceut & Biotech
 22     41    R F Pops         Alkermes           Pharmaceut & Biotech
 23     60    W H Rastetter    IDEC Pharmaceut    Pharmaceut & Biotech
 24     14    J Swartz         Symbol Tech        Tech Hardware & Eq
 25     32    R Price          Price Comm         Telecomm Serv


TERMS EXPLAINED: The change in a company's MVA from the start date of the CEO to September 2001 is the Delta MVA. The change in a company's MVA expressed as a percentage of the capital that a company had on the CEO'S start date is the Delta MVA/Beginning Capital. This calculation standardizes MVA according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the amount of invested capital a CEO had to work with at the beginning of his tenure, and greatly improves comparisons between companies of radically different sizes. In effect, it is a measure of the efficiency with which a CEO has used the capital at his or her command.
AUTOMOBILES AND COMPONENTS

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           16       28  Fred Bauer              Jan-81
   2          165      260  Jeffrey L Bluestein     Jun-97
   3          301      381  James H Keyes           Jan-88
   4          386      521  Joseph J Ross           Feb-90
   5          567      N/A  Mark P Frissora         Nov-99

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Gentex Corp                  1,391      12    1,379   270.72
   2      Harley-Davidson Inc         11,003   2,891    8,112     8.04
   3      Johnson Controls Inc         2,299      47    2,252     1.84
   4      Federal Signal Corp            369     181      188     0.85
   5      Tenneco Automotive Inc      -1,657  -1,516     -141    -0.04

BANKS

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           61      162  John A Allison          Jul-89
   2           70      164  Vernon W Hill, II       Jan-82
   3           80      152  George A Schaefer       Dec-90
   4           82      914  Kerry Killinger         Apr-90
   5           90      250  Kevin J Sheehan         Jun-95

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      BB&T Corp                    8,073      67    8,005    42.21
   2      Commerce Bancorp Inc         1,691       7    1,684    36.47
   3      Fifth Third Bancorp         27,120     432   26,688    30.76
   4      Washington Mutual Inc       11,441    -106   11,547    29.61
   5      Investors Financial Svcs     1,657     117    1,540    25.11

CAPITAL GOODS

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           27       54  Robert A Kierlin        Jan-68
   2           34       24  Rodger B Dowdell        Aug-85
   3          101      120  John F Welch            Apr-81
   4          146      197  George M Sherman        Feb-90
   5          151      103  Felix Zandman           Jan-62

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Fastenal Co                  1,798      37    1,762   148.74
   2      American Pwr Cnvrsion        1,007      16      991   105.02
   3      General Electric Co        321,189     342  320,847    19.54
   4      Danaher Corp                 4,134     160    3,974    10.14
   5      Vishay Intertechnology         372       7      365     9.51

COMMERCIAL SERVICES AND SUPPLIES

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1            3        8  B Thomas Golisano       Jan-71
   2           19       46  Harold M Messmer Jr     Jan-87
   3           26      108  John G Sperling         Jan-73
   4           64      111  Thomas A Mcdonnell      Oct-84
   5           74      154  D Li-San Hwang          Mar-88

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Paychex Inc                 11,301      65   11,236  2119.93
   2      Robert Half Intl Inc         2,972      23    2,950   220.49
   3      Apollo Group Inc             4,769      80    4,688   149.02
   4      DST Systems Inc              3,375      27    3,348    41.04
   5      Tetra Tech Inc                 670      59      611    34.47

CONSUMER DURABLES AND APPAREL

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           84      124  Philip H Knight         Jan-69
   2          144      182  Sidney Kimmel           Jan-75
   3          287      520  David L Kolb            Dec-88
   4          381      375  M Farooq Kathwari       Sep-88
   5          394      457  Paul R Charron          May-95

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Nike Inc                     9,304     675    8,628    27.49
   2      Jones Apparel Group Inc      1,794     638    1,156    10.44
   3      Mohawk Industries Inc          609     133      476     2.08
   4      Ethan Allen Interiors Inc      629     289      339     0.89
   5      Liz Claiborne Inc            1,009     290      719     0.77

DIVERSIFIED FINANCIALS

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           49      115  Alfred P West           Jan-68
   2           51       37  Charles R Schwab        Nov-86
   3           85      132  Alfred Lerner           Jan-91
   4          103      160  Charles B Johnson       Jan-71
   5          110      177  Raymond A Mason         Jan-70

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      SEI Investments Co           3,414     181    3,233    60.66
   2      Charles Schwab Corp          9,059     124    8,935    57.97
   3      MBNA Corp                   19,036   1,074   17,962    26.05
   4      Franklin Resources Inc       6,120     765    5,355    18.54
   5      Legg Mason Inc               1,994      12    1,982    17.08

ENERGY

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           71       81  Eugene M Isenberg       Jan-87
   2          113      127  Bernard Duroc-Danner    May-90
   3          115       99  Carl F Thorne           May-87
   4          128      133  James C Day             Jan-84
   5          129      189  Aubrey K McClendon      Jan-89

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Nabors Industries            1,846       5    1,841    35.37
   2      Weatherford Intl Inc         1,490      93    1,397    16.88
   3      Ensco International Inc        761       5      756    16.31
   4      Noble Drilling Corp          1,777     -83    1,860    13.98
   5      Chesapeake Energy Corp         730      -8      738    13.87

FOOD AND DRUG RETAILING

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           97      207  John P Mackey           Sep-80
   2          187      289  L Daniel Jorndt         Jan-98
   3          236      333  Steven A Burd           Apr-93
   4          326      537  Joseph A Pichler        Jun-90
   5          332      N/A  Charles H Cotros        Jan-00

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Whole Foods Market Inc       1,145      81    1,064    21.81
   2      Walgreen Co                 31,061  12,910   18,151     5.74
   3      Safeway Inc                 15,226     537   14,689     3.13
   4      Kroger Co                    8,857   3,614    5,243     1.47
   5      Sysco Corp                  15,157  11,508    3,649     1.38

FOOD, BEVERAGE AND TOBACCO

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           41      137  Gary T Rogers           Feb-77
   2           53      102  Melvin J Gordon         Jan-62

   3           83      122  William Wrigley         Mar-61
   4          105      231  Joseph W Luter III      Apr-75
   5          112      169  August A Bustch III     Jan-75

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream       909      54      855    70.01
   2      Tootsie Roll                 1,517      -4    1,521    54.87
          Industries Inc
   3      WM Wrigley Co                7,810     -49    7,859    27.81
   4      Smithfield Foods Inc         1,272      -7    1,279    18.12
   5      Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc      32,340     465   31,875    17.05

HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1            2        9  Dane A Miller           Nov-77
   2            6      105  Robert D Walter         Jan-71
   3           13       31  John W Brown            Feb-77
   4           31      112  William W Mcguire       Feb-91
   5           50      117  William J Schoen        Apr-86

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Biomet Inc                   6,903      27    6,876  2191.29
   2      Cardinal Health Inc         20,452      27   20,424   791.94
   3      Stryker Corp                 9,400      52    9,349   441.71
   4      UnitedHealth Group Inc      18,086     474   17,612   122.16
   5      Health Management Assc       3,934       9    3,926    58.16

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, AND LEISURE

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           79      165  David Overton           Feb-92
   2           89      915  Dan W Evins             Jan-70
   3           95      123  Chris T Sullivan        Apr-91
   4          191      282  Richard M Frank         Mar-86
   5          221      492  Charles N Mathewson     Feb-96

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Cheesecake Factory Inc       1,023     125      898    30.94
   2      CBRL Group Inc                 337       3      333    25.32
   3      Outback Steakhouse Inc       1,106     296      810    22.35
   4      CEC Entertainment Inc          716      36      681     5.56
   5      Intl Game Technology         3,843     782    3,061     3.62

HOUSEHOLD AND PERSONAL
 PRODUCTS

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1          117      144  Reuben Mark             May-84
   2          250      301  Wayne R Sanders         Dec-91
   3          280      279  G C Sullivan            May-92
   4          321      N/A  Andrea Jung             Nov-99
   5          399      465  Howard B Bernick        Oct-94

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Colgate-Palmolive Co        27,947      85   27,863    15.78
   2      Kimberly-Clark Corp         16,800   5,165   11,635     2.80
   3      Clorox Co                    4,447   1,155    3,292     2.19
   4      Avon Products               10,819   7,477    3,342     1.53
   5      Alberto-Culver Co              749     305      443     0.73

INSURANCE

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           92      311  Stephen L Way           Jan-74
   2          106      274  J Partick Gallagher Jr  Jan-95
   3          123      844  William P Foley II      Jan-84

   4          134      317  Peter B Lewis           Apr-93
   5          137      261  Alan I Kirshner         Sep-86

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      HCC Ins Hldgs Inc            1,003      15      988    24.79
   2      Arthur J Gallagher & Co      2,633     491    2,142    18.04
   3      Fidelity National            1,389      58    1,331    14.88
          Finl Inc
   4      Progressive Corp Ohio        7,449   1,488    5,962    12.78
   5      Markel Corp                  1,143      82    1,060    12.26

MATERIALS

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1          149      332  Peter McCausland        Jan-87
   2          209      395  James P Mooney          Jan-91
   3          224      343  Harold C Simmons        Jan-69
   4          292      367  Richard M Rompala       Oct-95
   5          309      538  Samuel W Bodman         Feb-88

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Airgas Inc                     368      21      347     9.68
   2      Om Group Inc                   886     127      759     4.22
   3      Valhi Inc                    1,030     -92    1,121     3 42
   4      Valspar Corp                 1,336     703      633     1.99
   5      Cabot Corp                   1,794     221    1,573     1.70

MEDIA

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1            1        2  Stephen M Case          Apr-93
   2           14       21  Ralph J Roberts         Jan-69
   3           66       66  Charles W Ergen         Jan-80
   4          116      212  Richard Robinson        Jan-75
   5          121      113  Barry Dilier            Aug-95

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      AOL Time Warner Inc         78,546     148   78,398  3445.03
   2      Comcast Corp                25,730      59   25,671   367.87
   3      EchoStar Commun Corp        11,646     830   10,817    40.16
   4      Scholastic Corp              1,074     -26    1,100    15.90
   5      USA Networks Inc             3,384     236    3,148    14.92

PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1            8       35  Howard Solomon          Jan-77
   2           21       45  Jonah Shacknai          Jul-88
   3           22       41  Richard F Pops          Feb-91
   4           23       60  W H Rastetter PhD       Dec-86
   5           28       51  John W Jackson          Jan-96

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Forest Laboratories         12,225      75   12,150   642.61
   2      Medicis Pharmaceut Cp        1,154       9    1,144   211.43
   3      Alkermes Inc                 1,366     170    1,197   211.29
   4      IDEC Pharmaceuticals         8,716      50    8,665   192.41
   5      Celgene Corp                 1,525     102    1,423   142.50

REAL ESTATE

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1          418      570  Peter S Rummell         Jan-97
   2          843      876  Paul W Whetsell         Aug-86

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      St Joe Co                    1,622     874      748     0.57
   2      Meristar Hospitality Corp     -721      88     -809    -2.24

RETAILING

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1            7       13  Richard M Schulze       Jan-66
   2           39       91  Warren Eisenberg        Jan-71
   3           42       62  Michael P Krasny        Jan-80
   4           46       44  W H Lester              Jan-79
   5           68       74  Thomas G Stemberg       Feb-88

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Best Buy Co Inc              9,120      57    9,063   732.41
   2      Bed Bath & Beyond Inc        7,019     592    6,427    76.64
   3      CDW Computer Centers Inc     2,529     149    2,381    69.44
   4      Williams-Sonoma inc            965      21      944    63.25
   5      Staples Inc                  4.281     108    4,173    38.68

SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1            5        6  Lawrence J Ellison      May-77
   2           17       25  Thomas M Siebel         Jul-93
   3           30       61  Lawrence F Probst       May-91
   4           32       89  Michael E Henry         Oct-94
   5           36      205  Neal L Patterson        May-87

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Oracle Corp                 70,718     241   70,477  1185.37
   2      Siebel Systems Inc          12,348   1,023   11,326   243.11
   3      Electronic Arts Inc          5,569      47    5,522   123.80
   4      Jack Henry & Associates      2,057      87    1,971   111.73
   5      Cerner Corp                  1,534      27    1,507    86.89

TECHNOLOGY HARDWARE AND EQUIPMENT

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1            4        3  Kobi Alexander          Apr-87
   2            9        7  Irwin Mark Jacobs       Jul-85
   3           10       18  Robert H Swanson Jr     Sep-81
   4           11       10  Daniel J Warmenhoven    Oct-94
   5           12       22  John F Gitford          Apr-83

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Comverse Technology Inc      2,982      19    2,963  1242.36
   2      Qualcomm Inc                36,509     470   36,039   566.66
   3      Linear Technology Corp      11,020     104   10,916   548.64
   4      Network Appliance Inc        6,528     642    5,886   542.70
   5      Maxim Integrated Products   14,365      47   14,318   462.12

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           25       32  Robert Price            Jan-79
   2          142      159  Leroy T Carlson Jr      Jan-86
   3          171      172  Joe T Ford              May-87
   4          226      247  Glen F Post             Jan-92
   5          260      315  Edward E Whitacre       Jan-90

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Price Communications Corp    1,159       4    1,154   168.00
   2      Telephone & Data             3,565      32    3,533    10.89
   3      Alltel Corp                  8,744     325    8,419     7.33
   4      CenturyTel Inc               2,710     618    2,092     3.32
   5      SBC Communications Inc      48,645  10,478   38,167     2.50

TRANSPORTATION

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1           48       84  PeterJ Rose             Oct-88
   2           67      134  Herbert D Kelleher      Sep-81
   3           99      187  Jerry C Atkin           Aug-75
   4          138      228  Jerry C Moyes           Jan-84

   5          164      294  D R Verdoorn            Jan-77


                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Expeditors Intl Wash Inc     2,307      55    2,252    61.39
   2      Southwest Airlines           9,446     122    9,324    39.87
   3      Skywest Inc                    696      32      664    19.87
   4      Swift Transportation Co      1,109      29    1,080    12.20
          Inc
   5      C H Robinson Worldwide       2,171     766    1,406     8.06
          Inc

UTILITIES

          Overall  Overall
             Rank     Rank
Industry    as of    as of                          Start
  Rank      09/01    12/99  Name                    Date

   1          125      307  C L Watson              Mar-95
   2          204      238  Kenneth L Lay           Jun-84

                                                                 Delta
                                               Start              MVA/
Industry                               09/01    Data    Delta      Beg
  Rank    Company                        MVA     MVA      MVA      Cap

   1      Dynegy Inc                   9,281      61    9,220    14.32
   2      Enron Corp                  14,975     274   14,701     4.37

CE's 4th MVA ranking was prepared by Jonathan Abraham, Jonathan Bloom,
and Mitchell Moss of Stern Stewart & Co.
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