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California: Fortune 500 Company Network

FAS.research, San Francisco

2006

Project Description:
The image shows director interlock relationships between Fortune 500 companies in California. We looked at how companies are connected with one another through their board of directors, i.e. Apple and Disney are connected through Steve Jobs. Companies that share a lot of directors among one another create denser zones in the network, thus form little clusters. We measured which companies exert the largest influence overall and within each cluster. This reveals compelling new insights into large account management.

Legend:
Triangles represent fortune 500 companies in CA. The larger the triangle, the more influential the company is. Companies of the same color belong to the same network cluster. If company A and company B share a mutual director on their board of directors, they are linked through a line. The thicker the line, the more directors are shared.