Yet at an age when most CEOs are thinking about riding off quietly into the sunset, Bergman, 68, has recently announced several bold moves that will reboot Henry Schein for the future. (Last year was the first time in four years Schein hadn’t outpaced the S&P.) “Progress is great, we cannot leave people behind.”įacing a decline in its performance against the S&P 500 over the past year, meanwhile, the Long Island–based company doubled down on its practice-management software products and dental capital equipment, areas in which it’s known for its expertise. to do a better job expanding these benefits to others,” he said. ![]() Henry Schein’s charitable arm has donated millions of dollars’ worth of dental and other medical supplies to serve refugees overseas as well as needy Americans, and Bergman used his CEO of the Year acceptance speech to call on his fellow executives to ensure that society’s benefits reach everyone. The son of parents who fled Nazi Germany and himself an immigrant who left apartheid South Africa, Bergman has presided over his company’s ascension to a global dental fixture with unmatched scale and know-how. Having spent 42 years at Henry Schein, Bergman has been its CEO for nearly three decades. Chief Executive cited Bergman’s “sustained high performance in both business goals and organizational values,” the latter a nod to his impassioned advocacy for the rights of immigrants, the impoverished and children worldwide. Taking the top spot this year is an industry icon who, among his many other laurels, was named 2017 CEO of the Year by Chief Executive magazine-an honor previously bestowed upon Disney’s Bob Iger, FedEx’s Fred Smith and Citigroup’s Sandy Weill, among other luminaries. The Globalist STANLEY BERGMAN (last year: 4)Ĭhairman and CEO, Henry Schein Melville, New York It only stands to reason that its most notable influencers are, too.ġ. This multibillion-dollar industry to which we’re all so proud to belong is ever-changing, after all. We want to spark a discussion every year with each new look at the state of dental influence. Disagree? Think we left someone obvious off? We’d love to hear from you. ![]() And you’ll see plenty of it-dental influence, that is, not what Stewart was talking about-in the pages ahead. A lot of the final decision comes down to Justice Potter Stewart’s famous standard: You know it when you see it. (A great deal of influence can be exerted behind the scenes, after all.) Finally, we attempted to quantify “size of voice”-how much pull an individual has through his or her speaking, writing, research, even social-media activities. If a given group is influential, then its leader is too, even if he or she is a low-key operator. We then considered the heft different organizations can bring to bear. It’s an inherently subjective task.Īs we did a year ago, in naming the 32 Most Influential People in Dentistry for 2018-one for every tooth, of course-we took a variety of metrics into consideration.ĭollars are of course crucial: company revenue, market capitalization, public or private budget controlled. WHEN INCISAL EDGE PUBLISHED its inaugural list of dentistry’s most influential people last year, we noted that measuring something as nebulous as “influence” is like trying to measure the depth of a parent’s love, or the quality of a scenic view. ![]() Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s out entirely? (One very notable figure, to be sure.) Incisal Edge’s second annual look at our industry’s primary forces to be reckoned with-the doctors, executives, lobbyists, educators, innovators and, er, Miss Universes doing more than anyone to shape dentistry today.īy Elizabeth Dilts, Mellanie Perez, Joshua Coe and Shannon Bowen 2018’s 32 Most Influential People in Dentistry
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