Jeff Campbell
12-22-2009, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.9to5mac.com/jobs_uber_alles_30228?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+(9+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence)' target='_blank'>http://www.9to5mac.com/jobs_uber_al...e+Intelligence)</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the world's best-performing CEO by the prestigious Harvard Business Review. The publication conducted a study regarding 2,000 CEOs worldwide, choosing a sample group consisting of 48 nationalities from companies based in 33 countries."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1261418945.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>You can read the article <a href="http://hbr.org/web/extras/100ceos/1-jobs" target="_blank">here</a> and see who else was in the running, but it only considered those who took on the job between January 1995 and December 2007 so some long-time CEOs weren't considered, such as Ellison and Gates. For his part, Jobs has delivered, on average, an annual 30% shareholder return since he came back, as well as helping to add $150 billion USD to the market cap. </p>