Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Honors Marc Benioff with Legend in Leadership Award
June 20 2024 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, announced that its Chair and CEO Marc
Benioff received the Yale Legend in Leadership Award at the Yale
CEO Summit. The distinction recognizes his visionary leadership and
profound commercial impact around the world.
The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute presents the Yale
Legend in Leadership Award to current and former CEOs who serve as
living legends to inspire chief executives across industries,
sectors, and nations.
During a virtual summit of 250 CEOs, Benioff was presented with
the award by Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies;
Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company; Arvind Krishna, CEO of
IBM; and Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Mobile.
- “Marc has a belief that business can be the greatest platform
for change and that businesses exist to improve the state of the
world. It's not just a great idea. It's a vision that he's turned
into reality. And he's made a tangible, significant impact on the
world that we live in ... He's helped us all move forward,” said
Dell.
- “From his revolutionary impact that Salesforce has had on the
business landscape to the way he's centered Salesforce's core
values on how they operate, to the way he's given back to the
community, he really has truly been exemplary in the fact that he
leads with such a strong sense of purpose and integrity,” said
Iger.
- “His success is a testament to his beginner's mind philosophy:
approach challenges from a fresh perspective. He has been ahead of
his time. He remains ahead of his time, and his success enabled
powerful tools to become accessible and scalable for businesses of
all sizes,” said Krishna.
- “[You have an] incredible passion for making great products
that change the way people work around the world. We've been
customers for so long. You've built an incredible company, one of
the world's most valuable companies, by building great products.
And when people see you do that, it's just amazing, the spark of
creativity and the leadership that you bring,” said Sievert.
During his acceptance remarks, Benioff said: “I think it's true
that business is the greatest platform for change. We're fortunate
to have these businesses, not only to demonstrate building great
technology and great products and moving our technology continuum
forward, but to improve the state of the world.”
“Marc Benioff is a global business visionary, a trailblazing
entrepreneur, and an icon of values-first leadership,” said Jeffrey
Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies at the
Yale School of Management. “He embodies the values, accomplishments
and impact the Yale Legend in Leadership Award was designed to
recognize.”
Benioff founded Salesforce 25 years ago. Fueled by the company’s
core values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, Equality, and
Sustainability, Salesforce has pioneered trailblazing technologies
and transformed hundreds of thousands of businesses into
customer-first companies, as the world’s #1 AI CRM. Salesforce’s
impact is rooted in Benioff’s belief that business is the greatest
platform for change.
About Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of
Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff's
leadership, Salesforce has become the third-largest enterprise
software company and the largest enterprise applications company in
the world. He also co-founded the Pledge 1% movement, committing 1%
of Salesforce’s equity, product and employee time to the community
since the company’s founding 25 years ago. Today, more than 20,000
companies have adopted the 1-1-1 model.
Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is
recognized as one of the World’s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune. He
has also been named one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard
Business Review, as the CNN Business CEO of 2020 and Chief
Executive Magazine's 2022 CEO of the Year. For his leadership on
equality, Benioff has been honored by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King
Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment
Award. In 2020, he and his wife, Lynne, received a George H.W. Bush
Points of Light Award for their civic engagement; the couple has
donated more than $1 billion. He is the owner and co-chair of
TIME.
More information:
- Read more about Marc Benioff
- Learn more about Salesforce’s impact
- Learn more about Salesforce’s #1 AI CRM
About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, empowering companies to connect
with their customers in a whole new way through the power of CRM +
AI + Data + Trust on one unified platform: Einstein 1. For more
information visit: www.salesforce.com.
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