These Are the Most Over and Underrated CEOs

Coins2Day’s survey of the World’s Most Admired Companies, now in its 19^th year (and conducted by our partner the Korn Ferry Hay Group), has always measured the reputations of large corporations as seen by fellow big-company executives. This year, we decided to also gauge the reputations of the people who lead those enterprises. Specifically, we asked respondents to volunteer the names of which CEOs aren’t getting enough credit—and which are getting too much. More people identified under-touted chieftains than those they see as having inflated reputations. What can we deduce from the results? Well, two of the CEOs managed the feat of being cited as underrated and overrated. If nothing else, that suggests it just may be better to be loved and hated than not to be noticed at all.