The logarithmic compression reflects the economic principle of diminishing marginal returns to scale preventing very large companies from dominating the ranking purely because of their scale. As a result, a company needed both a strong impact profile and sufficient economic reach to place highly. A large company could not compensate for weak impact performance through size alone, and a smaller company with excellent impact intensity would not automatically reach the top positions if its overall reach remained limited.
Combining all components, the Final Score is computed as: Final Score=(NISnorm+SDGnorm)×Revnorm β
Companies are ranked in descending order of their Final Score. The 500 companies with the highest Final Scores that satisfy all eligibility criteria are recognized as the World’s Most Impactful Companies of 2026.
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