The Best CEOs In The World, According To "Harvard Business Review"

He credits “luck” for propelling him to the very top of management magazine Harvard Business Review’s (HBR) annual ranking of best performing chief executive officers (CEOs). Meet Lars Rebien Sørensen, the CEO of Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. Sørensen has been in charge since 2000.

Founded in 1923, Novo Nordisk is headquartered in Bagsværd, Denmark. The company, according to HBR, was founded “to make insulin, a newly discovered drug”. The company, it adds, “now controls nearly half of the market for insulin products—which are second only to oncology drugs as the fastest growing category of pharmaceuticals. The firm also branched into growth hormones, hormone replacement therapies and drugs to treat hemophilia”.

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