一个公司的领导者是否具有创新力，对公司的发展可谓影响巨大。福布斯从过去五年中上市的50家最大的美国私营公司，以及最具创新成长公司排名前100位的美国公司中，选择了市值超过100亿美元的美国公司的创始人或首席执行官，给出了一份最具创新力领导者100名榜单。至于排名方法，简单来说主要是以下四个方面：
1、在媒体上的创新声誉。指的是媒体人对公司的评价，例如在顶级商业新闻中的声誉。
2、和创新相关的社会关系、社会资本。指的是公司在社会上的影响力，例如社交媒体上的关注者数量。
3、所领导公司的价值创造记录。指的是对投资者的回报，例如股票价值是否升值。
4、投资者对公司未来的增长和创新预期。指的是能否在未来实现创新溢价，增加市值和新的收入。
亚马逊创始人Jeff Bezos和特斯拉创始人Elon Musk在该榜单中并列第一名。名单如下：
rank name company 1 Jeff Bezos Amazon 1 Elon Musk Tesla 3 Mark Zuckerberg Facebook 4 Marc Benioff Salesforce.com 5 Reed Hastings Netflix 6 Satya Nadella Microsoft 7 Shantanu Narayen Adobe 8 Tim Cook Apple 9 Arne Sorenson Marriott International 10 Larry Page and Sergey Brin Alphabet 11 Rodney Sacks Monster Beverage 12 John Donahoe ServiceNow 13 Jeffrey Leiden Vertex Pharmaceuticals 14 Gary Guthart Intuitive Surgical 15 Brad Smith Intuit 16 Scott Stephenson Verisk Analytics 17 Michael Mahoney Boston Scientific 18 Ajaypal Banga Mastercard 19 Stephen Easterbrook McDonald's 20 George Yancopoulos and Leonard Schleifer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 21 Mark Parker Nike 22 Ronald Clarke FleetCor Technologies 23 Michael Mussallem Edwards Lifesciences 24 Jean-Jacques Bienaime BioMarin Pharmaceutical 25 Bob Iger Walt Disney 26 Miles White Abbott Laboratories 27 Jeffery Yabuki Fiserv 28 Jensen Huang NVIDIA 29 Omar Ishrak Medtronic 30 Robert Sands Constellation Brands 31 Andrew Wilson Electronic Arts 32 Hock Tan Broadcom 33 Kevin Lobo Stryker 34 Martin Mucci Paychex 35 Richard Gonzalez AbbVie Inc. 36 Christopher O'Connell Waters 37 Lawrence Kurzius McCormick 38 Robert Kotick Activision Blizzard 39 Benno Dorer Clorox 40 James Meyer Sirius XM Radio 41 Vincent Forlenza Becton Dickinson 42 Kevin Sayer DEXCOM INC 43 Donald Slager Republic Services 44 Gary Norcross Fidelity National Information 45 Matthew Farrell Church & Dwight 46 Bruce Broussard Humana 47 Fabrizio Freda The Estée Lauder Companies 48 Stanley Bergman Henry Schein 49 Richard Templeton Texas Instruments 50 David King LabCorp 51 Craig Menear Home Depot 52 John Morikis Sherwin-Williams 53 Richard Norwitt Amphenol 54 Craig Jelinek Costco Wholesale 55 Thomas Joyce Danaher 56 Marc Casper Thermo Fisher Scientific 57 Greg Creed Yum! Brands 58 Patrick Gelsinger VMware 59 William Wagner Logmein 60 Douglas Baker Ecolab 61 James Hill Vulcan Materials 62 Steven Abramson Universal Display Co (OLED) 63 Andrew Florance CoStar Group 64 Carlos Rodriguez Automatic Data Processing 65 Michael Gianoni Blackbaud 66 Antonio Pietri ASPEN TECHNOLOGY INC 67 Vincent Roche Analog Devices 68 John Hayes Ball 69 Howard Nye Martin Marietta Materials 70 William Brown L3 Technologies 71 Michael McMullen Agilent Technologies 72 Thomas Rutledge Charter Communications Inc. (Cl A) 73 Todd Vasos Dollar General 74 Stanley Crooke Ionis Pharmaceuticals 75 Barbara Rentler Ross Stores 76 Daniel Florness Fastenal 77 Stephen Angel Linde 78 Scott Santi Illinois Tool Works 79 Gregory Brown Motorola Solutions 80 William Rhodes AutoZone 81 Seifollah Ghasemi Air Products & Chemicals 82 Jose Almeida Baxter International 83 Stephen Rusckowski Quest Diagnostics 84 Richard Barton Zillow Class A 85 Brian Roberts Comcast 86 Alex Gorsky Johnson & Johnson 87 Clay Siegall SEATTLE GENETICS INC 88 Gary Dickerson Applied Materials 89 Michael Lamach Ingersoll Rand 90 Richard Wallace KLA-Tencor 91 Blake Moret Rockwell Automation 92 David Auld D.R. Horton 93 Ernie Herrman TJX Cos 94 Tarek Sharif MEDIDATA SOLUTIONS INC 95 Alan Miller Universal Health 96 Brian Goldner Hasbro 97 Keith Allman Masco 98 Thomas Williams Parker-Hannifin 99 Oscar Munoz United Continental Holdings 100 Devin Wenig eBay
