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The Top CEOs of 2026. Plus, Corning's Wendell Weeks Talks A.I. and Glass.

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Hello and welcome to the Barron's Streetwise podcast. I'm Jack Howe. Today we're going to be talking about the top CEOs issue. I'm going to be speaking with my colleague Andrew Slimmon about some of the names that turned up on the list. We'll hear later from one of our CEOs, Wendell Weeks at Corning. That's next. Andrew Barry, as I live and breathe. How are you, my friend? Good to see you. Good to be here with you, Jack.

Ready to talk CEOs? Yep. We have Barrons All-Star Andrew Barry to help run us down the list. We do this each year. We have 25 names that we have called out. We start with the screening process. We look for signs of operational excellence. And then we get together in a group and we have nominations and debate and so forth. How would you describe the process? Collegial, mostly?

Yeah, I would say collegial. There were some notable disagreements, but I think we came up, I think, overall with a good list. We got past it. We came out mostly on friendly terms at the end. So we're not going to run through all 25 of them. For that, people can see the latest issue of Barrons. Let's do a few apiece. Each of us handled some of these individual write-ups. We're going to hear from one of these CEOs, Wendell Weeks at Corning, later in this episode.

The Top CEOs of 2026. Plus, Corning's Wendell Weeks Talks A.I. and Glass.

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

The Top CEOs of 2026. Plus, Corning's Wendell Weeks Talks A.I. and Glass.

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.