Dirty business: Hygenie's list of the ten least sanitary CEOs


Clockwise from upper left: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen; Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak; HDNet Chairman Marc Cuban; Virgin Group Chairman Richard BransonHygenie.com lists the Top 10 Dirty Businessmen -- corporate executives whose conduct has, for one reason or another, raised serious questions about their personal hygiene. Here's the list:
  • Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer -- Check out the picture of him sweating: Yuck!
  • Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky -- Face itcher!
  • Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson -- Streaker!


  • HDNet Chairman Mark Cuban -- Caught on camera ... picking his nose?
  • Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen -- Perhaps he can talk Microsoft into acquiring some Crest Whitestrips?
  • MacAndrews and Forbes Chairman Ron Perelman -- Forehead kisser!
  • Italian mogul and Formula One figure Flavio Briatore -- Not even gonna touch that one.
  • Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak -- Rambo!
  • One-time fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich -- Interesting taste in women ...
  • Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates -- I don't think this one is gross ...
This is interesting. There has been all kinds of research about what factors influence CEO performance. Does restricted stock motivate executives better than options? Are children who are hit more likely to become CEOs?

But what about sanitation? Is a smooth, suave, put-together CEO more likely to command respect? Or is a disheveled CEO who doesn't have time to floss more likely to be laser-focused on the business?

My hunch is none of it really matters -- but I'm sure some finance professor somewhere can come up with a study to demonstrate, definitively, that Gold Bond foot powder does improve performance.

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