Who Wants to be a CEO? Fewer and Fewer People are Interested in the Top Job.

In 1914, a satirical illustration published in Australia used the three-letter acronym CEO for what is believed to be the very first time. The abbreviation for chief executive officer didn’t catch on in corporate America until 1972, but within three years almost all heads of Fortune 500 companies were using the CEO title. Today, just about everybody knows what a CEO is, although the position of the top-ranking corporate officer has evolved a great deal over the decades. Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang be ...