Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune. The list is of the 1000 largest American companies, ranked on revenues alone. Eligible companies are any which are incorporated or authorized to do business in the United States, and for which revenues are publicly available (this list has a larger universe than "public companies", as the term is commonly understood, meaning "companies whose common stock trades on a stock market"). The Fortune 500 is the subset of the list that is its 500 largest companies.

The list draws the attention of business readers seeking to learn the influential players in the American economy and prospective sales targets, as these companies tend to have large budgets and staff needs.

Wal-Mart Stores has been number 1 on the list for four of the last five years (2007–2011), interrupted only by ExxonMobil in 2009.

Navi Radjou is an independent thought leader and strategy advisor based in Silicon Valley. He is an internationally-recognized voice of business innovation and leadership. Navi is also a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a faculty member of the World Economic Forum.

Most recently, Navi served as the Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Cambridge Judge Business School. Previously, Navi was a longtime VP/analyst at Forrester Research in Boston and San Francisco who worked with senior executives worldwide on breakthrough growth strategies

Navi has consulted with leading international organizations—including BT, Fujitsu, GM, Hitachi, IBM, Infosys, Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, NEC, Procter & Gamble, Rolls-Royce, SAP, Sprint, TCS, and Wipro.

Navi has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist, The Financial Times. He is a columnist on HarvardBusinessReview.org. Navi is a sought-after keynote speaker by the World Economic Forum, Council on Foreign Relations, The Conference Board, Harvard University, Asia Society, and more. A prolific writer, Navi has coined and popularized several business concepts such as ‘Global Innovation Networks’, ‘Polycentric Innovation’ and ‘Indovation’.

Mike Bauer (June 29, 1959 in Oakland) is a retired American tour professional tennis player. Bauer won three singles and nine top-tier doubles titles during his career. He reached a career high singles ranking of World No. 29 in November 1984.

An All-American in 1981 at University of California, Berkeley, Bauer won the 1982 Bangkok Grand Prix and 1982 and 1983 Adelaide Grand Prix. He was also a finalist at the 1983 Sydney Outdoor Grand Prix. He reached the semi-finals in five other tournaments during his career. His best Grand Slam result was reaching the 3rd round of Wimbledon in 1983 where he lost to eventual finalist Chris Lewis. He reached the second round of the U.S. Open twice in four tries.

Bauer reached a career high doubles ranking of World No. 25, and won the 1981 Taipei Grand Prix and Manila Grand Prix, and 1982 Bangkok Grand Prix, tournaments partnering compatriot John Benson, the 1983 Stuttgart Outdoor partnering Anand Amritraj and Sydney Outdoor partnering Pat Cash, the 1992 Tel Aviv Grand Prix partnering João Cunha e Silva, the 1993 Casablanca Grand Prix partnering Piet Norval, and Santiago Grand Prix with Rikl, and the 1994 Vienna Grand Prix again with Rikl. He was a finalist at the 1983 Maui Grand Prix partnering Scott Davis and 1984 Melbourne Grand Prix partnering Scott McCain, 1993 Zarazoga Grand Prix partnering David Rikl, Gerry Weber Open with Marc-Kevin Goellner, Tel Aviv partnering Rikl, and Vienna with David Prinosil.

Les McKeown (born 12 November 1955) is a Scottish pop singer. He was the lead singer for the Bay City Rollers during their most successful period.

Leslie Richard McKeown was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland.

He joined the Bay City Rollers in late 1973, replacing original lead singer Nobby Clark. The group's intense popularity, nicknamed "Rollermania", took off shortly afterwards. He was with the band until 1978, at which time he left to pursue a career as a solo artist. He released a series of solo albums which saw modest success, primarily in Germany and Japan.

One of McKeown's most unusual musical collaborations after leaving the Bay City Rollers was singing on Filigree & Shadow,^{[citation needed]} the second album by gothic/dream pop band This Mortal Coil.

In 1988-1989 Les McKeown worked with Dieter Bohlen. The result of their partnership was an album - It's A Game.

In 1990 he participated in the UK heats of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Ball and Chain", which placed fifth.