USAA (United Services Automobile Association)

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Most Admired Company: 2015, 2016

Top Arizona executive: Robert Schaffer, vice president of regional strategy and general manager

What it does: Provides military members and their families with insurance, banking and investment services.

Admirable quality: USAA recognizes and develops a local spirit of innovation through fun and engaging forums, like the Phoenix Innovation Tank. Employees are selected to pitch their idea to a leadership panel for sponsorship. As a testament to USAA’s pursuit of innovative excellence for its members and employees, patents for employee inventions are celebrated by the USAA on numerous wall displays in its campuses.

Take a look at the rest of this year’s Most Admired Companies here.