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  • At least 55 of the top 800 CEOs were not born in the USA. The majority of the foreign born from theU.K., Germany, India and Japan, among other countries.
  • The proportion of the foreign-born is
    even higher—one in seven—among chief
    executives who founded their own company.
  • Most—797 of the 800—are males.
  • Their average age is 56 years old.
  • Most came up through the ranks: On average they've spent 21 years at the company they head.
  • 52 out of the 800 lack college degrees, but 53% have graduate degrees.
  • Their age range spans half a century: The oldest
    is 83-year-old William Dillard, who founded Dillard's, Inc. when Franklin Roosevelt was President (1939). and the youngest is Michael Dell, 33, founder of Dell Computer.

According to the May 1998 issue of Forbes Magazine survey of America’s top 800 Chief Executive Officers.

Survey #1 results:

  • One in five CEOs believe electronic commerce will completely reshape competition in their industries.
  • More than half of the CEOs of the top companies consider their personal computer skills to be excellent or good.
  • Almost a third had logged onto the Internet for ten days or more in the                previous month.
  • 41 percent think government regulation will be a major obstacle to their growth in the future.
  • Fully a third of the CEOs polled declare they are extremely optimistic about growth prospects.
  • Only 5 percent are pessimistic about growth in the future..

From the first Price Waterhouse/World Economic Forum annual survey of CEOs titled INSIDE THE MIND OF THE CEO: A SURVEY. Survey of 400 global CEOs. See this site for more information.

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