Week one assignment Go to BusinessWeek.com and in the left margin link to Special Reports. Find the Business Week 50 special report, a list of the top fifty performing companies in the previous year. Read the report. 1. What are the criteria that were used to select the Business Week 50? Review the BW50/S&P 500 Scoreboard from a link on the BW50 page. Which of the performance measures is best related to shareholder wealth maximization? Why? How do the companies rank using the "wealth maximization" variable? (In the BW50/S&P 500 Scoreboard, click on the performance measure and the list will reorder/rank based on your chosen criterion). Review the Glossary to see how each performance measure is calculated.