The world's largest corporations, read by how they produce value — extracted from stakeholders and the commons, or created in exchange that leaves them better off.
A global sample of two dozen-plus nations, grouped by region, plus the B Corp cohort — mapped on the calibration scale.
The scale asks one question: does the firm create more value than it captures? Below the 200 line it extracts — externalizing cost onto labor, suppliers, the environment, or the commons; above it, value is created in genuine exchange that leaves stakeholders better off. Corporations are the best-documented entities on the board — disclosures, ESG filings, labor and environmental records, litigation, decades of scrutiny — so the enacted reading is unusually firm. The apex inverts, as everywhere in this suite: 700 is not the best company but a warning — a firm that has become a total institution, an inescapable company-state. The admirable firms top out at Service and Regeneration (500–540), not there.
Every firm carries two readings: what it enacts (●, its record) and what it professes (○, its mission and ESG deck). On no other page is that gap so visible — here it has a name, greenwashing, and the distance is the diagnostic. B Corps are the deliberate test of whether the two can be made to coincide. One caution: this samples the largest firms for recognizability, but the axis reads behavior, not size — a three-trillion-dollar company can calibrate low.
Select any company above to explore how it creates or extracts value, its enacted-versus-professed calibration, and the reading behind it