Every year research firm Universum ranks the most desirable employers in the world, based on where MBA candidates say they'd most like to work. To pick the 100 Most Desirable MBA Employers, Universum surveyed 5,769 students (2,496 women, 3,241 men) at 52 top business schools nationwide between January and March 2008. Students were asked to choose the five companies they would most like to work for from a list of 199 companies.