Entrepreneurs can use the Culture 500 to identify companies or industries that struggle with innovation or customer orientation and could be targets for disruption.

Identifying Disruption Targets via Culture 500

The Culture 500 includes an 'Innovation Sentiment by Industry' view that ranks industries by employees' assessment of innovation in Glassdoor reviews. The chart is based on more than 1.2 million reviews, and its numbers denote standard deviations above or below the mean sentiment score across all industries.

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The MIT Sloan Culture 500 ranks major companies across nine dimensions of corporate culture using Glassdoor reviews. It also celebrates cultural excellence through public recognition and identifies areas where influential companies can improve their culture.

MIT Sloan Culture 500 Rankings of Corporate Culture

MIT Sloan Management Review project page on measuring culture in leading companies, including the Culture 500 dataset. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/measuring-culture-in-leading-companies/

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The Big Nine are the nine cultural values that the MIT SMR/Glassdoor Culture 500 measures: agility, collaboration, customer, diversity, execution, innovation, integrity, performance, and respect. The researchers selected these because they were the values most frequently cited across companies' corporate values statements; a separate study had identified more than 60 distinct values listed by companies, and the list was narrowed to nine because reporting dozens of values would have been overwhelming.

Big Nine Cultural Values

Corporate leaders can use the Culture 500 to gauge whether employees believe their organization is living up to its stated values, such as respecting every worker, acting with integrity, and providing an inclusive environment for a diverse workforce.

Gauging Whether Employees Believe Stated Values Are Lived via Culture 500

Innovation Sentiment by Industry in Culture 500

The Culture 500 celebrates excellence in culture, rewards it with public recognition, and spurs it forward by identifying areas where some of the world's most influential companies can improve their culture.

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