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The Most Respected CEOs

The Executive Society recognizes and honors the world's top CEOs. The researchers' criteria for accepting nominations included the importance of nominee's work, media coverage, recognition within the consulting, academia and international management community. The published list of names contains the elites of the management profession, the senior managers who impacted the way we think about and do business. Their strategies and work lessons empowers the current and future generation of executives. In our opinion, every government leader and CEO needs to know about these executives and learn from them. The list is provided in alphabetical order (by first name). The following is a list of the world's most notable CEOs and their most important work 

  1. Akio Morita, CEO of Sony Inc. - Innovation as Global Enterprise - Japan
  2. Al Saud, Al Waleed Bin Talal, CEO of Kingdom Holding - Prince of International Investments - Saudi Arabia
  3. Alfred Sloan, CEO of General Motors & The Executive Organization  - USA
  4. Andrew Carnegie, CEO of U.S. Steel -  King Steel & Philanthropy - USA
  5. Andrew Grove, CEO of Intel - The Brain of PCs - USA
  6. Arthur Rock, CEO of  Arthur Rock & Associates - Father of Venture Capital & The Silicon Valley - USA
  7. Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder & CEO - One of the Greatest Entrepreneur of All Times - USA
  8. David Sarnoff, CEO of RCA - A Media Pioneer - USA
  9. Eiji Toyoda, CEO of Toyota = A Global Engineering Success - Japan
  10.   Frank Woolworth, CEO of Woolworth - Price-Driven Retail Chain Pioneer - USA
  11.   George Eastman, CEO of Eastman Kodak - The Portable Camera - USA
  12.   Gorge Soros, CEO of Soros Fund -  The Investment Reward to Risk Management - USA
  13.   Henry Ford, CEO of Ford Motors - A Pioneering Automobile "Enterprise Engineer" - USA
  14.   Henry Luce, CEO of Time, Fortune, Life & Sports Illustrated Magazines - USA
  15.   Ikujiro Nonaka, CEO of The Knowledge-creating Company. - Japan
  16.   Ingvar Kamprad, CEO of Global King Of Furniture (IKEA) - Sweden
  17.   Jeffery Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com - Pioneering Global E-Commerce - USA
  18.   John Rockefeller, CEO of Father of US Oil Industry - USA
  19.   J.P. Morgan, CEO of JP Morgan - A Financial Giant - USA
  20.   Konosuke Matsushita , CEO of Japan Industrial Giant - Japan
  21.   Lee Iacocca, CEO of Chrysler Turnaround Icon - USA
  22.   Martha Stewart, CEO of Multi-billion Dollar Life Style! - USA
  23.   Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computers - Youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 - USA
  24.   Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's - The Global Fast Food Business Model - USA
  25.   Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Fox Media - A Global Media Emperor - USA
  26.   Samuel Walton, CEO of Wal-Mart A Retail Empire - USA
  27.   Soichiro Honda, CEO of Honda - The Fastest Motorcycle In The World - Japan
  28.   Theodore Vail, CEO of AT&T - A Telecom Giant - USA
  29.   Thomas Edison, CEO of General Electric (GE) - The Business of Invention - USA
  30.   Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM - International Business Machines (IBM) - USA
  31.   Vincent Bollore, CEO of The Investment Group Bollore - Most Successful Corporate Raider - France
  32.   Walter Disney, CEO of Disney World - CEO of Children's Dream - USA
  33.   Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway - The Patient Investor - USA

Notes on the list: 

  • According to Mr. Med Jones, Editor-in-Chief, no "elite" list is all inclusive. There are many great CEO who who are not included in this list or do not have equal media or research exposure. The nomination for A List is open worldwide. To participate in the survey, please visit Polls

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Methodology and Ranking Criteria
The survey methodology provides the ability to validate nominations and allows insights into the nominees' critical success factors.
  • Public stakeholders can nominate the most respected companies and their leaders.
  • Voters are then asked to give the reasons for their nominations, thus providing valuable insight into what key factors drive the success of these nominees. Questions are presented in free-form and open-ended formats.
  • Further research is conducted to validate the entries using sales figures, business/investment analysts ratings, competitive benchmarking and market impact as expressed in the global media.
  • After verification and acceptance of the nomination, the input is then statistically analyzed taking into consideration the geographic region, the relationship with the company, the number of votes, the listed reasons and the order in which they are listed.
  • When two or more companies score equally on overall ratings (reach a tie) the Institute editors refer to the number of votes.

In a nutshell, the public nominates, the researchers validate the nominations, and the number votes determines the respectability and ranking.

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