Useem is the director of Wharton's Center for Leadership and Change Management.more
Fink cofounded BlackRock in 1988. He built it into an asset-management firm with $3.5 trillion under management—and a powerful voice on behalf of savers.more
Named CEO of Nissan in 2001, Ghosn has turned Nissan into one of the world’s most profitable automakers and has expanded aggressively into emerging markets and zero-emission vehicles.more
Greene is the first woman and first non-Briton to head Royal Mail, the United Kingdom's state-owned postal service. She is leading a major overhaul of Royal Mail's business model ahead of its expected privatization.more
The managing director and CEO of India’s second-largest bank explains how she balances the local and the global.more
As CEO, Kullman is leading the reinvention of DuPont from an American chemicals conglomerate to a global science company.more
Shimon Peres is the ninth and current president of Israel, elected in 2007. One of the defining figures of that country, he shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.more
Childhood illness, family misfortune, and an early career as a physician influenced Vasella’s outlook as CEO of Novartis, which he built into one of the world’s largest drug companies.more