Page 25 - Harvard Business Review, November-December 2018

LEADERSHIP
The Best-Performing CEOs in the

World 2018

by Harvard Business Review Staff

FROM THE NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2018 ISSUE

n turbulent times, steadiness and stability can be significant virtues. These qualities are

evident in the 100 men and women who’ve achieved a spot in HBR’s 2018 ranking of the

Iworld’s top-performing CEOs. They face an array of outside forces—savvy competitors,
demanding customers, profit-hungry investors, political and economic headwinds. Nonetheless,

their companies have shown a remarkable ability to sustain momentum: Seventy of the 100

leaders in last year’s ranking performed well enough to achieve the distinction again this year—

including Pablo Isla, of the Spanish fast-retailing giant Inditex, who repeats as the number-one-

ranked executive.