and our new list of America’s most innovative leaders

2019-09-30 -

Who are the greatest creative business minds? Two exceptional scholarly minds have figured out a way to measure that. Professors Jeff Dyer, of Brigham Young University, and Nathan

Furr, of INSEAD business school, working together with consultant Curtis Lefrandt, have built on the Most Innovative Companies ranking that Forbes did for the past eight years to calculate which corporate leaders to highlight. They’ve done it by measuring four essential

qualities: reputation for innovation (looking at media coverage over five years), social connections and networks (on Twitter and LinkedIn), track record for value creation (based on the market value growth of their companies) and investor expectations for future value creation (measured by the premium that investors put on their companies’ stock). For more,

including complete methodology, go to FORBES.COM/INNOVATIVE-LEADERS.

1. JEFFREY BEZOS AMAZON.COM

71.49 COMPANY INNOVATION PREMIUM

1. ELON MUSK TESLA MOTORS

75.27

3. MARK ZUCKERBERG FACEBOOK

61.84

4. MARC BENIOFF SALESFORCE.COM

80.7

5. REED HASTINGS NETFLIX

72.16

6. SATYA NADELLA MICROSOFT CORP

31.59

7. SHANTANU NARAYEN ADOBE SYSTEMS

64.43

8. TIMOTHY COOK APPLE

11.58

9. ARNE SORENSON MARRIOTT INTL

53.66

10. LARRY PAGE / SERGEY BRIN ALPHABET

33.87

11. RODNEY SACKS MONSTER BEVERAGE

63.27

12. JOHN DONAHOE SERVICENOW

65.05

13. JEFFREY LEIDEN VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS

58.15

14. GARY GUTHART INTUITIVE SURGICAL

47.92

15. BRAD SMITH INTUIT

45.64

16. SCOTT STEPHENSON VERISK ANALYTICS

50.57

17. MICHAEL MAHONEY BOSTON SCIENTIFIC

41.74

18. AJAYPAL BANGA MASTERCARD

46.46

19. STEPHEN EASTERBROOK MCDONALD’S

25.78

20. LEONARD SCHLEIFER / GEORGE YANCOPOULOS REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS

39.51

21. MARK PARKER NIKE

34.62

22. RONALD CLARKE FLEETCOR TECHNOLOGIES

56.55

23. MICHAEL MUSSALLEM EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES

39.87

24. JEAN-JACQUES BIENAIME BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL

63.57 COMPANY INNOVATION PREMIUM

25. ROBERT IGER WALT DISNEY

26.16

26. MILES WHITE ABBOTT LABORATORIES

32.95

27. JEFFERY YABUKI FISERV

36.98

28. JENSEN HUANG NVIDIA

23.02

29. OMAR ISHRAK MEDTRONIC

29.15

30. ROBERT SANDS CONSTELLATION BRANDS

41.8

31. ANDREW WILSON ELECTRONIC ARTS

30.47

32. HOCK TAN BROADCOM

28.89

33. KEVIN LOBO STRYKER

33.04

34. MARTIN MUCCI PAYCHEX

37.76

35. RICHARD GONZALEZ ABBVIE

22.62

36. CHRISTOPHER O’CONNELL WATERS

35.99

37. LAWRENCE KURZIUS MCCORMICK & CO

39.73

38. ROBERT KOTICK ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

34.78

39. BENNO DORER CLOROX CO

38.52

40. JAMES MEYER SIRIUS XM RADIO

48.19

41. VINCENT FORLENZA BECTON DICKINSON & CO

33.59

42. KEVIN SAYER DEXCO

70.61

43. DONALD SLAGER REPUBLIC SERVICES

37.48

44. GARY NORCROSS FIDELITY NATIONAL INFO SVCS

30.97

45. MATTHEW FARRELL CHURCH & DWIGHT

38.5 COMPANY INNOVATION PREMIUM

46. BRUCE BROUSSARD HUMANA

47. FABRIZIO FREDA ESTEE LAUDER COS

36.73

48. STANLEY BERGMAN HENRY SCHEIN

32.17

49. RICHARD TEMPLETON TEXAS INSTRUMENTS

31.53

50. DAVID KING LABCORP

39.65

51. CRAIG MENEAR HOME DEPOT

31.34

52. JOHN MORIKIS SHERWIN-WILLIAMS

32.87

53. RICHARD NORWITT AMPHENOL

35.97

54. CRAIG JELINEK COSTCO WHOLESALE

34.72

55. THOMAS JOYCE DANAHER

32.96

56. MARC CASPER THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC

29.56

57. GREG CREED YUM! BRANDS

35.55

58. PATRICK GELSINGER VMWARE

25.73

59. WILLIAM WAGNER LOGMEIN

55.21

60. DOUGLAS BAKER ECOLAB

35.24

61. JAMES HILL VULCAN MATERIALS

36.3

62. STEVEN ABRAMSON UNIVERSAL DISPLAY

46.49

63. ANDREW FLORANCE COSTAR GROUP

58.63

64. CARLOS RODRIGUEZ AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING

28.19 COMPANY INNOVATION PREMIUM

65. MICHAEL GIANONI BLACKBAUD

47.89

66. ANTONIO PIETRI ASPEN TECHNOLOGY

53.73

67. VINCENT ROCHE ANALOG DEVICES

24.54

68. JOHN HAYES BALL

25.79

69. HOWARD NYE MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS

25.46

70. WILLIAM BROWN L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES

24.5

71. MICHAEL MCMULLEN AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES

23.29

72. THOMAS RUTLEDGE CHARTER COMMUNICATION

15.63

73. TODD VASOS DOLLAR GENERAL

18.57

74. STANLEY CROOKE IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS

53.18

75. BARBARA RENTLER ROSS STORES

23.04

76. DANIEL FLORNESS FASTENAL

36.77

77. STEPHEN ANGEL LINDE

26.58

78. SCOTT SANTI ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS 24.79 79. GREGORY BROWN MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS

26.1

80. WILLIAM RHODES AUTOZONE 24.35 81. SEIFOLLAH GHASEMI AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS

20.88

82. JOSE ALMEIDA BAXTER INTERNATIONAL

14.59

83. STEPHEN RUSCKOWSKI QUEST DIAGNOSTICS

19.81 COMPANY INNOVATION PREMIUM

84. RICHARD BARTON ZILLOW GROUP

59.02

85. BRIAN ROBERTS COMCAST

8.78

86. ALEX GORSKY JOHNSON & JOHNSON

7.97

87. CLAY SIEGALL SEATTLE GENETICS

47.37

88. GARY DICKERSON APPLIED MATERIALS

9.44

89. MICHAEL LAMACH INGERSOLL-RAND

14.59

90. RICHARD WALLACE KLA-TENCOR

19.46

91. BLAKE MORET ROCKWELL AUTOMATION

18.52

92. DAVID AULD D R HORTON

6.27

93. ERNIE HERRMAN TJX COMPANIES

19.81

94. TAREK SHARIF MEDIDATA SOLUTIONS

50.95

95. ALAN MILLER UNIVERSAL HEALTH SVCS

15.89

96. BRIAN GOLDNER HASBRO

4.82

97. KEITH ALLMAN MASCO

35.79

98. THOMAS WILLIAMS PARKER-HANNIFIN

1.45

99. OSCAR MUNOZ UNITED CONTINENTAL HLDGS

12.44

100. DEVIN WENIG EBAY

14.1

?? ?? “I very rarely get pulled into the today. I get to work two or three years into the future, and most of my leadership team
has the same setup.” Forbes 9/30/2018 No. 1 Jeff Bezos — “I very rarely get pulled into the today. I get to work two or three years into the future, and most of my leadership team has the same setup.” Forbes 9/30/2018 No. 1 Jeff Bezos

?? ?? No. 3 Mark Zuckerberg “Your goal should never be starting a company. Focus on the change you want to make.”
Forbes 9/28/2017 — No. 3 Mark Zuckerberg “Your goal should never be starting a company. Focus on the change you want to make.” Forbes 9/28/2017

?? ?? “We need to have a beginner’s mind to think about what is happening.”
Forbes 9/28/2017 No. 4 Marc Benioff — “We need to have a beginner’s mind to think about what is happening.” Forbes 9/28/2017 No. 4 Marc Benioff

?? ?? “I just always had this vision that if you had the right science and the right-sized company and the right people, you could actually create a sustainable model where you could discover breakthrough drug after breakthrough drug.”
Forbes 9/5/2017 No. 13 Jeffrey Leiden — “I just always had this vision that if you had the right science and the right-sized company and the right people, you could actually create a sustainable model where you could discover breakthrough drug after breakthrough drug.” Forbes 9/5/2017 No. 13 Jeffrey Leiden

?? ?? No. 6 Satya Nadella “When we achieved our success, with that success came out the classic hubris that I describe as being the know-italls. I said, ‘Let’s shed that.’”
Forbes 12/31/2018 — No. 6 Satya Nadella “When we achieved our success, with that success came out the classic hubris that I describe as being the know-italls. I said, ‘Let’s shed that.’” Forbes 12/31/2018

?? Forbes 5/17/2017 ?? No. 15 Brad Smith “Three things. Use small teams—no bigger than what two pizzas can feed. Second: ‘The customer breaks all ties.’ And third: ‘Speed and quality are not tradeoffs.’ Speed forces you to focus.” — Forbes 5/17/2017 No. 15 Brad Smith “Three things. Use small teams—no bigger than what two pizzas can feed. Second: ‘The customer breaks all ties.’ And third: ‘Speed and quality are not tradeoffs.’ Speed forces you to focus.”

?? Forbes 8/31/2018 ?? “Most people, they lose their edge. We just push the edge further forward.” No. 20 George Yancopoulos — Forbes 8/31/2018 “Most people, they lose their edge. We just push the edge further forward.” No. 20 George Yancopoulos

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