Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Harvard Business Review's Best CEOs List

Harvard Business Review has published its Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2012 list.Number one on the list is the late Steve Jobs of Apple Computer.The top living CEO is Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
The list is based on three metrics:industry-adjusted shareholder returns;country-adjusted shareholder returns;and increase in market capitalisation over entire tenure.It is drawn from 3143 CEOs in 37 countries,and is the only global ranking of CEOs over their entire tenure.
Under Jeff Bezos,Amazon delivered industry-adjusted shareholder returns of 12,266%,and saw Amazon's value increase by 111 billion dollars.Meg Whitman of Hewlett-Packard is the top woman CEO,coming in at number nine on the list.The only other woman on it is China's Dong Mingzhou of Gree Electric Appliances.
Yun Jong-Yong,formerly of Samsung Electronics,is number three;while Roger Agnelli,formerly of Brazilian miner Vale,is number four.Hyundai's Chung Mong-Koo is number six,and India's Y.C. Deveshwar of ITC consumer goods is number seven.
On average,the CEOs delivered total shareholder returns of 1,385% and increased market value by 40.2 billion dollars.This was the third annual edition of the list.
To recap the top four,they were:1.Steve Jobs,Apple;2.Jeff Bezos,Amazon;3.Yun Jong-Yun,Samsung;4.Roger Agnelli,Vale.
Apple Computer(AAPL),Amazon(AMZN)

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