New York--Harvard Business Review released its annual list of the 100 best-performing CEOs in the world, and heading up the list is Amazon chief Jeff Bezos.
During his tenure, Amazon delivered industry-adjusted shareholder returns of 15,189 percent and its value increased by $140 billion, according to the Review. Only two women made the 2014 ranking and one of them was a retailer: Carol Meyrowitz, who heads up TJX Cos., came in at number 51.
The annual listing assesses the chiefs of companies in the S&P Global 1200 from each executive's first day in office until April 30 of this year, and examines such metrics as industry-adjusted shareholder returns, country-adjusted shareholder returns, and increase in market capitalization over a CEO’s tenure.
The other retailers in the elite group were:
Tadashi Yanai, Fast Retailing (#11);
Pablo Isla Álvarez de Tejera, Inditex (#14);
Michael Balmuth, Ross Stores (#25);
Simon Wolfson, Next (#43);
Howard Schultz, Starbucks (tie, #54);
Blake Nordstrom, Nordstrom (tie #54);
William Rhodes III, Auto Zone (#62),
Terry Lundgren; Macy’s (#66);
Gregory Henslee, O’Reilly Automotive (#80);
and Michael Kowalski, Tiffany & Company (#92).