- Harvard Business Review (HBR) released its annual CEO 100 list of the top chief executives globally — notably, Jeff Bezos didn’t make the cut.
- HBR says it ranks the “best-performing” CEOs based on financial performance as well as environmental, social, and governance measures.
- Companies with CEOs in the top third of the list include NVIDIA, Salesforce, Texas Instruments, Adobe, Mastercard, Microsoft, LVMH, L’Oréal, Nike, JP Morgan Chase, BlackRock, and Cisco.
- Some CEOs on the list —including Mark Parker from Nike and Anders Runevad from Vestas — stepped down this year.
- Only four women made the full list of the top 100 CEOs in the world.
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Harvard Business Review (HBR) published its annual list of the top 100 CEOs globally — notably, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is missing entirely.
Bezos took the number one spot in HBR’s 2014 ranking, and has remained on the list until this year. HBR attributes his sudden disappearance to a change in ranking methodology.
HBR says it ranks CEOs based on financial performance as well as environmental, social, and governance measures (called “ESG,” collectively). Whereas ESG comprised 20% of the total CEO score in years past, it became more important in 2019. ESG now comprises 30% of the total CEO score, which proved fatal for Bezos.
According to HBR, Amazon has a low ESG score; it cites Sustainanalytics, which attributes the low score to “risks created by working conditions and employment policies, data security, and antitrust issues.”
Some CEOs included on the list have stepped down from their roles this year, including Mark Parker from Nike and Anders Runevad from Vestas.
HBR acknowledged that women CEOs are “underrepresented” on the ranking, with just four women on the list this year. It says this number is illustrative of how few women are in the c-suite and is not indicative of performance.
The full ranking can be found on HBR’s website.
Check out the top 35 below.
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35. Heinz-Jürgen Bertram, Symrise
Sector: Materials
CEO since: 2009
Country: Germany
34. Richard Fairbank, Capital One
Sector: Financial services
CEO since: 1994
Country: US
33. Hisashi Ietsugu, Sysmex
Sector: Healthcare
CEO since: 1996
Country: Japan
32. Chuck Robbins, Cisco Systems
Sector: Information technology
CEO since: 2015
Country: US
31. Martin Bouygues, Bouygues
Sector: Industrials
CEO since: 1989
Country: France
30. Gilles Andrier, Givaudan
Sector: Materials
CEO since: 2005
Country: Switzerland
29. Debra Cafaro, Ventas
Sector: Real estate
CEO since: 1999
Country: US
28. Alfred Chan, Hong Kong and China Gas
Sector: Utilities
CEO since: 1997
Country: Hong Kong
27. Xavier Huillard, Vinci
Sector: Industrials
CEO since: 2006
Country: France
26. Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices
Sector: Information technology
CEO since: 2014
Country: US
25. Gregory Goodman, Goodman
Sector: Real estate
CEO since: 1995
Country: Australia
24. Laurence Fink, BlackRock
Sector: Asset management
CEO since: 1988
Country of company: US
23. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase
Sector: Banking
CEO since: 2005
Country: US
22. Simon Borrows, 3i
Sector: Financial services
CEO since: 2012
Country: UK
21. Jacques Aschenbroch, Valeo
Sector: Automotive
CEO since: 2009
Country: France
20. Mark Parker, Nike
Sector: Sporting goods
CEO since: 2006
Country: US
19. Jean-Paul Agon, L’Oréal
Sector: Consumer goods
CEO since: 2006
Country: France
18. Benoît Potier, Air Liquide
Sector: Materials
CEO since: 1997
Country: France
17. Hamid Moghadam, Prologis
Sector: Real estate
CEO since: 1997
Country: US
16. Nancy McKinstry, Wolters Kluwer
Sector: Commercial services
CEO since: 2003
Country: Netherlands
15. Bernard Charles, Dassault Systémes
Sector: Information technology
CEO since: 1995
Country: France
14. Anders Runevad, Vestas
Sector: Industrials
CEO since: 2013
Country: Denmark
13. Elmar Degenhart, Continental
Sector: Automotive parts
CEO since: 2009
Country: Germany
12. Michael Mussallem, Edwards Lifesciences
Sector: Healthcare
CEO since: 2000
Country: US
11. Erik Engstrom, RELX
Sector: Commercial services
CEO since: 2009
Country: UK
10. Bernard Arnault, LVMH
Sector: Luxury consumer goods
CEO since: 1989
Country: France
9. Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Sector: Information technology
CEO since: 2014
Country: US
8. Johan Thijs, KBC
Sector: Banking
CEO since: 2012
Country: Belgium
7. Ajay Banga, Mastercard
Sector: Payments
CEO since: 2010
Country: US
6. Shantanu Narayen, Adobe Systems
Sector: Information technology
CEO since: 2007
Country: US
5. Ignacio Galán, Iberdrola
Sector: Utilities
CEO since: 2001
Country: Spain
4. Richard Templeton, Texas Instruments
Sector: Information technology
CEO since: 2004
Country: US
3. Francois-Henri Pinault, Kering
Sector: Luxury consumer goods
CEO since: 2005
Country: France
2. Marc Benioff, Salesforce
Sector: Information technology
CEO since: 2001
Country: US
1. Jensen Huang, Nvidia
Sector: Information technology
CEO since: 1993
Country: US
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