120 Most Competitive Cities

I love these sort of lists.  From Citicorp:

1. New York
2. London
3. Singapore
4. Hong Kong
5. Paris
6. Tokyo
7. Zurich
8. Washington
9. Chicago
10. Boston
11. Frankfurt
12. Toronto
13. Geneva
14. San Francisco
15. Sydney
16. Melbourne
17. Amsterdam
18. Vancouver
19. Los Angeles
20. Seoul
21. Stockholm
22. Montreal
23. Copenhagen
24. Houston
25. Dallas
26. Vienna
27. Dublin
28. Madrid
29. Seattle
30. Philadelphia
31. Atlanta
32. Berlin
33. Oslo
34. Brussels
35. Hamburg
36. Auckland
37. Birmingham
38. Taipei
39. Beijing
40. Dubai
41. Abu Dhabi
42. Barcelona
43. Miami
44. Shanghai
45. Kuala Lumpur
46. Prague
47. Doha
48. Milan
49. Osaka
50. Nagoya
51. Rome
52. Shenzhen
53. Warsaw
54. Monaco
55. Budapest
56. Incheon
57. Lisbon
58. Moscow
59. Tel Aviv
60. Buenos Aires
61. Bangkok
62. Sao Paulo
63. Fukuoka
64. Busan
65. Guangzhou
66. Krakow
67. Johannesburg
68. Delhi
69. Santiago
70. Mumbai
71. Mexico City
72. Athens
73. Cape Town
74. Istanbul
75. Tianjin
76. Bucharest
77. Rio de Janeiro
78. Panama City
79. Bangalore
80. Kuwait City
81. Jakarta
82. Dalian
83. Chengdu
84. Suzhou (Jiangsu)
85. Manila
86. Muscat
87. Chongqing
88. Lima
89. Bogota
90. Monterrey
91. Qingdao
92. Ahmedabad
93. Hangzhou
94. Durban
95. Ankara
96. Medellin
97. Pune
98. Belo Horizonte
99. Hyderabad
100. Almaty
101. Saint Petersburg
102. Guadalajara
103. Porto Alegre
104. Hanoi
105. Chennai
106. Kolkata
107. Riyadh
108. Kiev
109. Ho Chi Minh City
110. Surabaya
111. Colombo
112. Karachi
113. Cairo
114. Bandung
115. Nairobi
116. Alexandria
117. Beirut
118. Dhaka
119. Lagos
120. Tehran

Source: http://www.managementthinking.eiu.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Hot%20Spots.pdf