How We Did It

THIS IS THE THIRD EDITION of Fortune India Best CEOs that identifies and ranks the best corporate performers in India Inc.

The methodology takes into consideration quantitative as well as qualitative assessment of financial and strategic performance of India's Best CEOs. It all starts with how the enterprise has performed financially. To do that, we extract data for the last four fiscals FY21 to FY24 this time round for all listed companies with the Registrar of Companies to identify their performance over the past three fiscals. A CEO’s performance can be judged by financial metrics, but there are many aspects which are not purely driven by numbers. To bring in the qualitative inputs, the quantitative findings were presented to a jury. The jury this year comprised of Cyril Shroff, managing partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas & Co; Hemendra Kothari, non-executive chairman, DSP Investment Managers; M. Damodaran, former chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi); Prashant Jain, founder, 3P Investment Managers; Rajat Dhawan, managing partner, McKinsey & Co, and Vinod Rai, former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. Sanjiv Goenka, chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group chaired the Jury.