If you haven’t read in the news before, Google stock price brook $800 for the first time in 2013. Since then, Google moved into the No. 3 position among the most valuable firms in the world, people analytics being one of the major reasons.

Google is clearly the youngest firm among the leaders; it has surprisingly been less than a decade since Google’s IPO.

Most companies on the top 20 market cap list could be accurately described as “old school,” because most can attribute their success to being nearly half a century old, having a long-established product brand, or through great acquisitions. Google’s market success can instead be attributed to what can only be labeled as extraordinary people management practices that result from its use of “people analytics.” Read more