Harvard Business Review has conducted a research to assess a CEO’s performance and to do that they collected data about 2,000 CEOs worldwide in 33 countries. Their study’s results put Apple’s Steve Jobs on the top of ranking as the best performing CEO.


According to Harvard Business Review:

“This ranking shows which CEOs of large public companies performed best over their entire time in office—or, for those still in the job, up until September 30, 2009.”

To know further detailed information about the other CEOs and their ranking you may read The The Top 50 CEOs list until 2009.