For its November 2014 issue, Harvard Business Review compiled and released a list of the 100 best-performing CEOs in the world.
To determine their worth, HBR looked at companies that were in the S&P Global 1200 by the end of 2013. From there, a research team calculated daily company returns for each CEO from the first day they took office until April 30, 2014 (CEOs who assumed office either before 1995 or after April 30, 2012 were excluded).
Marketing Dive went over the rankings and found several interesting tidbits of information from the CEOs of brands that made the cut. There is not one woman at the helm, and only two of the CEOs have a degree higher than a bachelor's. The rankings also didn't necessarily correlate with net worth—the CEO of Nike, at the bottom of our list, has an estimated net worth that's over $200 million higher than that of the CEO of Yum Brands, which is near the top.
Here are the top 10 brand CEOs included in the rankings.
1. Amazon (#1)
CEO: Jeff Bezos
Based in: Seattle, WA
Education: Princeton University
Assumed role: 1996
Estimated net worth: $30.2 billion
2. Yum Brands (#12)
CEO: David Novak
Based in: Louisville, KY
Education: University of Missouri
Assumed role: 2000
Estimated net worth: $18.3 million
3. Wynn Resorts (#17)
CEO: Stephen Wynn
Based in: Paradise, NV
Education: University of Pennsylvania
Assumed role: 2002
Estimated net worth: $4 billion
4. Netflix (#23)
CEO: Reed Hastings
Based in: Los Gatos, CA
Education: Bowdoin College, Stanford University
Assumed role: 1998
Estimated net worth: $1 billion
5. Swatch (#52)
CEO: Nick Hayek Jr.
Based in: Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Education: University of St. Gallen
Assumed role: 2003
Estimated net worth: $1.7 billion
6. Starbucks (#54)
CEO: Howard Schultz
Based in: Seattle, WA
Education: Northern Michigan University
Assumed role: 2008
Estimated net worth: $1.5 billion
7. Walt Disney (#60)
CEO: Robert Iger
Based in: Los Angeles, CA
Education: Ithaca College
Assumed role: 2005
Estimated net worth: $85 million
8. Chipotle (#63)
CEO: Monty Moran
Based in: Denver, CO
Education: University of Colorado, Pepperdine University (JD)
Assumed role: 2009
Estimated net worth: N/A (Earned $24.4 million in total compensation last year)
9. Adidas (#73)
CEO: Herbert Hainer
Based in: Herzogenaurach, Germany
Education: University of Applied Sciences Landshut
Assumed role: 2001
Estimated net worth: N/A (earned €2,696,000 in total compensation last year)
10. Nike (#76)
CEO: Mark Parker
Based in: Beaverton, OR
Education: Pennsylvania State University
Assumed role: 2006
Estimated net worth: $250 million