Top CEOs by Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review magazine ranked the best CEOs , and did not bother with all sorts of managerial qualities and other immeasurable charisma, and considered “pure money”. The money that the company has earned for its shareholders in one way or another for its shareholders (dividends, but not only), weighed against the general indicators in the country and the industry. A little more detail about the methodology for calculating Total Shareholders Return (TSR) can be read here , if you're interested.



The presence in the rating of Gazprom Miller, of course, causes wild laughter, but nothing, you can forgive Harvard's egg-headed editors. What personally seemed curious to me - in the Top 50 top managers only 10–15 people have an MBA crust. As before, it was clear that the MBA was not obtained for some secret managerial knowledge, but to comply with the rules of a career game in the West. But judging by the rating, the presence of crusts is not even the rule of the game.



Virtually no women, but the only one in the top ten, led eBay to what it is now - in fact, a monopolist in the auction market. After her dismissal due to the acquisition of Skype, the company, it seems to me, began to go rather quickly to go crazy and mutate. Now it remains only to wait until Google agrees with one of the smaller auctioneers or launches its site - and eBay ends.

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Almost all CEOs work in their countries of birth, and if for some Korean-Japanese-Japanese this is understandable, then the isolation of Europeans-Americans looks strange. No, it turns out, there is no globalization when it comes to top-level governance.



The rest is predictable - Steve Jobs in the first place, Chambers-iron-tsiskovod, Ballmer in the lists is not listed, a lot of energy and consumer goods. And there are a lot of people whose biographies make sense to at least skim through.





1. Steve Jobs, Apple (1997 – Present), US, IT, Insider CEO, MBA - No, Country-Adjusted TSR 3,226%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 3,188%, Market Cap Change $ 150B



2. Yun Jong-Yong, Samsung Electronics (1996–2008), South Korea, IT, Insider CEO, MBA - No, Country-Adjusted TSR 1.559%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 1.458%, Market Cap Change $ 127B



3. Alexey B. Miller, Gazprom (2001 – Present), Russia, Energy, Insider CEO, MBA - No, Country-Adjusted TSR 2.032%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 2.427%, Market Cap Change $ 101B



4. John T. Chambers, Cisco Systems (1995 – Present), US, IT, Insider CEO, MBA - Yes, Country-Adjusted TSR 922%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 1.05%, Market Cap Change $ 152B



5. Mukesh D. Ambani, Reliance Industries (2002 – Present), India, Energy, Insider CEO, MBA - Yes, Country-Adjusted TSR 1,001%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 1.430%, Market Cap Change $ 72B



6. John C. Martin, Gilead Sciences (1996 – Present), US, Health Care, Insider CEO, MBA - Yes, Country-Adjusted TSR 2.089%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 2.054%, Market Cap Change $ 39B



7. Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon.com (1996 – Present), US, Retail, Insider CEO, MBA - No, Country-Adjusted TSR 4.592%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 4.586%, Market Cap Change $ 37B



8. Margaret C. Whitman, eBay (1998–2008), US, IT, Outsider CEO, MBA - Yes, Country-Adjusted TSR 1,434%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 1.368%, Market Cap Change $ 37B



9. Eric E. Schmidt, Google (2001 – Present), US, IT, Outsider CEO, MBA - No, Country-Adjusted TSR 387%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 344%, Market Cap Change $ 101B



10. Hugh Grant, Monsanto (2003 – Present), US, Materials, Insider CEO, MBA - Yes, Country-Adjusted TSR 684%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 572%, Market Cap Change $ 35B



19. John W. Thompson, Symantec (1999–2009), US, IT, Outsider CEO, MBA - Yes, Country-Adjusted TSR 839%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 851%, Market Cap Change $ 19B



22. Mikhail Prokhorov, Norilsk Nickel (2001–2007), Russia, Materials, Insider CEO, MBA - No, Country-Adjusted TSR 260%, Industry-Adjusted TSR 739%, Market Cap Change $ 30B