Deveshwar ranked world’s 7th best CEO - The Financial Express
 December 25, 2012
YC Deveshwar, chairman, ITC  has been ranked as the seventh best performing CEO in the world in a global  study on the 100 best performing global CEOs by the Harvard Business Review in  its January-February 2013 edition. 
The ITC Chairman ranks  first amongst the Indian CEOs featured in this elite list, which was decided  after evaluating how much total shareholder returns had changed over a time  period from the CEO's first day in office to 31st August 2012, (adjusting for  country and industry effects)as well as the overall increase in market  capitalisation.