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Top CEOs you may not have heard of
Morten Hansen, management professor at U.C. Berkeley, talks with Kai Ryssdal about the surprising list of best-performing CEOs in the latest Harvard Business Review.
Kai Ryssdal: Business and economic types are as interested in who's hot and who's not as the rest of us are. So when lists that rank big name corporate CEOs come out they get a lot of attention. And you always see the usual suspects. Steve Jobs from Apple. Amazon's Jeff Bezos, the chiefs of Microsoft, IBM and Disney, and all the rest.
Harvard Business Review, though, offers a different roster in this month's magazine. Yes, Jobs and Bezos are there. But nowhere do you find the guys running IBM or Disney. In fact, the No. 2 and 3 slots on the list go to people you've probably never heard of -- Yun Jong Yong runs the Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung, Alexey Miller's at the Russian energy company Gazprom.
Management professor Morten Hansen from Berkeley helped come up with the list. And when we spoke I asked him how he decided who made the cut.
Morten Hansen: The criteria is that first of all it's worldwide, it's global. Secondly we looked at objective performance through their time in office -- from the start to the finish. And Samsung's Mr. Yong, he makes No. 2 because his numbers are so good. And that's why he makes the list....
Read Morten Hansen's article, "The Best-Performing CEOs in the World," in Harvard Business Review