Inditex CEO Pablo Isla has topped Harvard Business Review’s list of the best-performing chief executives in the world for the second year in a row. The ranking takes into account economic results and other elements of social responsibility. The other nine CEOs in the list include Jensen Huang, Nvidia; Bernard Arnault, LVMH, François-Henri Pinault, Kering; Elmar Degenhart, Continental; Marc Binioff, Salesforce; Jacques Aschenbroich, Valeo; Johan Thijs, KBC; Hisashi Ietsugu, Sysmex and Martin Bouygues, Bouygues.
As per the publication, if rankings were measured on financial returns alone, Isla would have come in 29th, compared with 18th a year ago. But the company’s strong performance in terms of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG), which makes up 20 per cent of each CEO’s ranking, helped him take the top spot.
