Yum! chief exec among Harvard Business Review's top CEOs in world

Yum! chief exec among Harvard Business Review's top CEOs in world
Tags: Pizza Hut
December 21, 2009

David C. Novak, chairman, president and CEO of Yum! Brands Inc., has made the list of the Best Performing CEOS in the World, according to the Harvard Business Review. Novak was ranked No. 78 and was the only restaurant brand exec to make the top 100. Yum!, parent company of Pizza Hut, has experienced a market cap change of $14 billion under Novak, who joined the company in 2000. The ranking considers "which CEOs of large public companies performed best over their entire time in office."