The 25 CEOs who perform best in the world

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October 14, 2015 2:08 PM

Notably absent from the top spot is Amazon founder and chief, Jeff Bezos, who was number one last year.

Lars Rebien Sørensen

The Harvard Business Review has released its list of the 100 best-performing CEO in the world and this year, Lars Rebien Sørensen, CEO of Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk, tops the list.

Notably absent from the top spot is Amazon founder and chief, Jeff Bezos, who was number one last year.

HBR notes that ex-Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn, who resigned a few weeks back over the emissions scandal currently engulfing the company as the list was going to press, is ranked No. 20 based on the company’s financial data through April 30.

All in all, MBAs are still the top badge of honor, albeit decreasingly so with 26 of the top 100 CEOs possessing the degree, compared to 29 last year.

The top CEOs are in consumer goods, financial services, and healthcare. Diversity is also still an issue as only 2 women make the list of the top 100 CEOs.

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In compiling the ranking, HBR considers total shareholder return and the change in each company’s market capitalization. HBR added a measurement of each company’s environmental, social, and governance performance this year.

Here are the 25 top-performing CEO in the orld right now:

1. Lars Rebien Sørensen of Novo Nordisk

2. John Chambers of Cisco Systems

3. Pablo Isla of Inditex

4. Elmar Degenhart of Continental

5. Martin Sorrell of WPP

6. Stephen Luzco of Seagate Technology

7. Jon Fredrik Baksaas of Telenor

8. George Scangos of Biogen

9. Michael Wolf of Swedbank

10. Fujio Mitarai of Canon

11. Leslie Wexner of L Brands