| 2015 Rank | 2014 Rank | ||
| 1 | General Electric/Jeffrey Immelt | -3 | P&G/A.G. Lafley |
| 2 | IBM/Virginia Rometty | -2 | IBM/Virginia Rometty |
| 3 | P&G/A.G. Lafley | -1 | General Electric/Jeffrey Immelt |
| 4 | EMC/Joseph Tucci | -26 | Accenture/Pierre Nanterme |
| 5 | Verizon Communications/Lowell McAdam | -14 | Unilever/Paul Polman |
| 6 | VF Corporation/Eric Wiseman | -11 | Dow Chemical/Andrew Liveris |
| 7 | Southwest Airlines/Gary Kelly | -18 | McDonald’s/Donald Thompson |
| 8 | Wipro Ltd./T.K. Kurien | Monsanto/Hugh Grant | |
| 9 | The Cooper Companies/Robert Weiss | -36 | Hormel Foods/Jeffrey Ettinger |
| 10 | Dow Chemical/Andrew Liveris | -6 | General Mills/Kendall Powell |
| 11 | 3M/Inge Thulin | -23 | VF Corporation/Eric Wiseman |
| 12 | Xerox/Ursula Burns | W.W. Grainger/James Ryan | |
| 13 | Ingersoll Rand/Michael Lamach | -10 | Caterpillar/Douglas Oberhelman |
| 14 | General Mills/Ken Powell | -9 | Verizon Communications/Lowell McAdam |
| 15 | Hormel Foods/Jeffrey Ettinger | TJX Companies/Carol Meyrowitz | |
| 16 | Esterline/Curtis Reusser | -40 | Sprint/Daniel Hesse |
| 17 | Arthur J. Gallagher/J. Patrick Gallagher | Maxim Integrated/Tunc Doluca | |
| 18 | Sprint/Marcelo Claure | -16 | Southwest Airlines/Gary Kelly |
| 19 | Maxim Integrated/Tunc Doluca | -17 | Dentsply International/Bret Wise |
| 20 | Accenture/Pierre Nanterme | -4 | ADP/Carlos Rodriguez |
| 21 | Caterpillar/Doug Oberhelman | -13 | HNI/Stan Askren |
| 22 | Nielsen/Mitch Barns | McKesson/John Hammerman | |
| 23 | Hitachi Data Systems/Jack Domme | 3M/Inge Thulin | |
| 24 | Ball Corporation/John Hayes | Konecranes/Pekka Lundmark | |
| 25 | Cardinal Health/George Barrett | -27 | Ecolab/Douglas Baker |
| 26 | Coca-Cola Enterprises/John Brock | EMC Insurance/Bruce Kelley | |
| 27 | Huntington Bancshares/Stephen Steinour | -37 | Cardinal Health/George Barrett |
| 28 | Dentsply International/Bret Wise | -19 | Green Mountain Coffee Roasters/Brian Kelley |
| 29 | Royal Caribbean Cruises/Adam Goldstein | RPM International/Frank Sullivan | |
| 30 | Salesforce/Marco Benioff | Emerson Electric/David Farr | |
| 31 | Bristow Group/Jonathan Baliff | Comcast/Brian Roberts | |
| 32 | HCL Technologies, Ltd./Anant Gupta | Shoppers Drug Mart/Dominic Pilla | |
| 33 | Tata Group/Cyrus Mistry | Barnes Group/Patrick Dempsey | |
| 34 | Shoppers Drug Mart/Dominic Pilla | -32 | Cash America International/Daniel Feehan |
| 35 | Hyatt Hotels/Mark Hoplamazian | Dangote Cement/Aliko Dangote | |
| 36 | Ecolab/Douglas Baker | -25 | The Cooper Companies/Robert Weiss |
| 37 | Paychex/Martin Mucci | -39 | Huntington Bancshares/Stephen Steinour |
| 38 | Hewlett-Packard/Meg Whitman | Citigroup/Michael Corbat | |
| 39 | Harman International/Dinesh Paliwal | Paychex/Martin Mucci | |
| 40 | Monsanto/Hugh Grant | -8 | Esterline/Curtis Reusser |
Sources: Sources: 1Chief Executive Magazine, 2Bureau of Economic Analysis, 3Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4NewGeography.com, 5,6The Tax Foundation
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