英国《金融时报》对女性商业领导力的旗舰分析——“杰出女性”排行榜是关于庆祝与抱负。
如今，越来越多的女性开始进入世界各地公司的执行董事会。鉴于许多人在升至关键职位过程中所克服的障碍、以及她们对商界运作方式的影响，她们的成功本身就值得庆祝。
与此同时，她们的显赫地位还激发了数以百万计将自己视为未来领袖的妇女与少女的抱负。
我们希望通过突出女性高管的成就，来鼓励其他有志女性直面她们在攀登职业高峰过程中仍需要克服的挑战。
“杰出女性”排行榜对表现卓越女性成就的分析，还将进而对董事会与管理层的演变做出贡献。如果这意味着更多的公司将得益于更高的多元化程度，那就更好了。是否要通过变革、配额或其它法规，或者通过比较温和的施压来更快促成这些转变，仍是各方激烈辩论的一个议题。
我们很乐意为这场辩论再添一把火，无论是在印刷版报纸还是在网上(www.ft.com/womenatthetop)，我们鼓励读者上网参与讨论。
我们对全球商界50位杰出女性的排名，是项目的核心所在。不要忘记，在一个男性高管主导的世界中，我们排行榜上的首席执行官仍只是少数先驱。
当全球商界高层性别比例变得更均衡时，以成功女性高管为主题的题材将不再具有新闻价值。待那一刻到来时，我们将是首先欢迎它的人之一。
最杰出的50位商界女性
百事(PepsiCo)首席执行官卢英德(Indra Nooyi)再次在全球商界最杰出女性榜单上名列首位，雅芳产品(Avon Products)的钟彬娴(Andrea Jung)、萨班哲集团(Sabanci Group)的居莱尔•萨班哲(Güler Sabanci)和卡夫食品(Kraft Foods)的艾琳•罗森菲尔德(Irene Rosenfeld)紧随其后。不过，这四位领跑者已感受到了新上榜者和快速崛起的挑战者的压力。
今年榜单中有几位女性备受瞩目，其中包括施乐(Xerox)的乌苏拉•伯恩斯(Ursula Burns)、杜邦(DuPont)的柯爱伦(Ellen Kullman)，以及入榜六位印度女性的“旗手”——印度工业信贷投资银行(ICICI)的昌达科•科赫哈(Chanda Kochhar)。当我们编制去年的榜单时，这几位女性担任首席执行官的时间还不够长。
中国女性的崛起反映在两点上，一是格力电器(Gree Electric)董明珠与玖龙纸业(Nine Dragons Paper)张茵(Cheung Yan)排名的攀升，二是龙湖地产(Longfor Properties)吴亚军这位中国最富女性之一的首次上榜。
在去年入榜的女性中，有四位或退休、或辞职、或不再担任管理职务，另有三位因同行相对表现的改善而未能进入今年的榜单。阿克塞尔•约翰逊(Axel Johnson)的安东尼娅•阿克塞尔森•约翰逊(Antonia Ax:son Johnson)和AB Kinnevik的克里斯蒂娜•斯滕贝克(Cristina Stenbeck)这两位女性，未能成为今年榜单考虑的对象。尽管她们是各自公司的董事长，但评委认定她们在公司内主要担任非管理职务。
查看包括新上榜者、退出榜单者和明年榜单可能会考虑的女性的完整列表
榜单是如何编制的
最杰出的50位商界女性是由一个专家评委会选出的，评委根据关于高管业绩和供职时间的信息做出选择。这些信息大多由高管猎头集团亿康先达国际(Egon Zehnder International)提供。
用来评估候选人的一系列因素包括：个人履历；所在公司的规模、业务范围和复杂程度（包括营业额、雇员人数、部门数量和已在哪些国家开展业务）；以及竞争版图。
评委在评选时只考虑那些管理集团控股公司的高管（我们另有一份榜单列入不符合这一标准的50位最杰出商界女性）。只有那些已在高管岗位上供职至少12个月的女性才有资格入选。评委会还考虑了候选人所在公司过去三年的业绩，采用按美元计的股东总回报（在适用情况下）。
安德鲁•希尔(Andrew Hill)是英国《金融时报》副主编
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Women at the Top – the Financial Times’ flagship analysis of female business leadership – is about celebration and aspiration.
Growing numbers of women are now rising to the executive board of companies around the world. Given the obstacles many have overcome to reach key positions and the difference they are already making to the way in which the business world works, their success alone is cause for celebration.
At the same time, their prominence fuels the aspirations of millions of women and girls who see themselves as future leaders.
By highlighting female executives’ work, we hope to encourage other ambitious women to meet the challenges that many of them still need to overcome to reach the summit of their professions.
In turn, by analysing the achievements of high-performing women, Women at the Top contributes to the evolution of the boardroom and executive suite. If that means more companies will reap the benefits of greater diversity, so much the better. Whether these changes will be brought about more quickly by revolution, through quotas or other legislation, or by more gentle pressure, is still a matter of fierce debate.
We are pleased to add fuel to that debate, in print and online at www.ft.com/womenatthetop, where we encourage readers to participate in discussions.
Our ranking of the top 50 women in world business is the centrepiece of the project. Bear in mind that in a world dominated by male executives, the chief executives on our list still represent a pioneering minority.
When the gender balance at this high level of the global corporate world is more even, it will cease to be newsworthy to shine a spotlight on successful female executives. When that moment arrives, we will be among the first to welcome it.
THE TOP 50
Indra Nooyi, chief executive of PepsiCo, is again the leading woman in world business, followed by Andrea Jung of Avon Products, Güler Sabanci of Sabanci Group, and Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods. But these four are under pressure from new entrants and fast-emerging challengers.
In the spotlight are a handful of women who had not accumulated sufficient time as chief executives of their companies when last year’s ranking was compiled, among them Ursula Burns at Xerox, Ellen Kullman at DuPont and – a standard-bearer for the six Indian women in the list – Chanda Kochhar at ICICI.
China’s rise is reflected in the promotion within the ranking of Dong Mingzhu of Gree Electric and Cheung Yan of Nine Dragons Paper, as well as the inclusion, for the first time, of one of China’s richest women, Wu Yajun of Longfor Properties.
Four women on the 2009 list retired, resigned or gave up executive duties. Three others failed to make it because of the improved relative performance of their peers. Two women – Antonia Ax:son Johnson of Axel Johnson and Cristina Stenbeck of AB Kinnevik – were eliminated from consideration. While they chair their companies, the judges decided they held mainly non-executive roles.
View a full list of new entrants, departures and women who are likely to come into consideration next year
HOW THE RANKING WAS COMPILED
The top 50 was selected by an expert jury (see below) whose choice was based on information on the executives’ performance and durability, much of it supplied by Egon Zehnder International, the executive recruitment group.
A range of factors was used to assess the candidates: biographical data; size, scope and complexity of the company (including turnover and number of employees, number of sectors and countries of operation); and competitive landscape.
The judges ranked only executives managing a group’s controlling company. Our alternative 50 list honours executives excluded by this criterion. Only women who have served at least 12 months in the role are eligible. The panel also took into account each company’s performance over the past three years, using total shareholder return figures in US dollar terms, where applicable.
Andrew Hill is an associate editor of the Financial Times
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