On its 2016 list of the world's best-performing chief executives, released this week, eight of the top ten are CEOs of European companies. The top four CEOs all lead European firms: Lars Rebien Sørensen, CEO of Danish health care company Novo Nordisk (who was also No. In addition, it bases 20 percent of the score on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings to account for how a company performs on sustainability issues. Notably, it's that balance of sustainability measures with financial performance that explains why CEOs of U.S.-based companies are less represented at the top. And in 2014, when it ranked CEOs purely on financial performance, seven of the top 10 CEOs ran U.S.-based firms, and only one European company cracked that short list.

Source: Washington Post October 12, 2016 12:33 UTC