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Business Leader Rankings

AFL-CIO Union Executive paywatch: Highest-paid CEOs, July 2022
American Banker Most powerful women in banking, Oct. 2021 Most powerful women in finance, 2022
Barron's Most influential women in finance, March 2022 Top CEOs, July 2022 (subscription required - alternative for INSEAD members: see Factiva)
Brandwatch Most influential men and women on Twitter, Nov. 2021
Business Today India's best CEOs, March 2022 (See also Jan. 2021 top 20 list)
Campden FB (formerly Families in Business) Top 75 family business leaders, Sept./Oct. 2019 (See also: Americas - Asia-Pacific - Emerging Markets - Europe) (N.B. not updated in 2021)
Chief Executive CEO of the year, June 2022
Chronicle of Philanthropy Philanthropy 50: America's biggest donors, Feb. 2022 (free registration required)
Family Capital Top 100 influencers - academics, Feb 2022 (Subscription may be required)
Fast Company 50 Greatest business leaders of the 20th century Most creative people in business, Aug. 2022
Financial Times 50 Leading business pioneers
Forbes 30 under 30, North America : 2022 (see also Europe and Asia) Midas list: world's top 100 venture capitalists, 2022 World's 100 most powerful women, Dec. 2021 World's billionaires, 2022
Fortune (subscription required; alternative for INSEAD members, see Factiva) Business person of the year, 2020 (not updated in 2021) Top 40 under 40, 2021 Most powerful women, 2021 World’s 25 Greatest Leaders, 2021
Harvard Business Review CEO 100: The Best-performing CEOs in the world, Nov. 2019 (last edition - see Nov. 2020 editorial "Why We’ve Stopped Ranking CEOs")
HR Magazine HR most influential thinkers, 2022
Institutional Investor Rich list: the highest-earning hedge fund managers, March 2022
Inspiring Fifty Inspiring 50: the most inspirational women in European tech: DeepTech (2022) - Italy (2021) - Belgium (2020)
Management Today Top 35 women in business under 35, July 2022
Manager Magazin Die Reichsten Deutschen (Germany's Richest - Top ten), Oct. 2022 (see also see also PressePortal and previous list at Vermögen Magazin)
MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35, 2022
Poets & Quants Top 15 EMBA professors, Dec. 2021 (free registration required) World's best 40 under 40 professors, May 2022 (free registration required)
Private Equity News Europe's 50 most influential in private equity, 2021(free registration required)
Thinkers 50 The Thinkers 50: the world's top business thinkers, Nov. 2021 (every two years) The Thinkers 50 radar list: 30 thinkers to watch in the coming year, Jan. 2022
Time Time 100: the most influential people in the world, 2022 Time 100 Next: 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future, 2022

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