Best CEOs Led With Vision Top 10 business leaders used ingenuity and innovation to meet 2001's challenges.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)

Byline: KEN HOOVER

It was a rough year for business in 2001. A bear market reached its second year, consumer confidence sank and a worldwide recession hit.

But many chief executives led their companies through the tough times with vision and execution.

Below is Investor's Business Daily's selection of such leadership -- the Top 10 Leaders & Success CEOs for 2001.

To select the 10, a team of IBD editors reviewed Leaders & Success articles on current CEOs. The editors evaluated many candidates, choosing those they thought best captured the spirit of ingenuity, innovation and success.

Of the following 10, no rankings were made. Each CEO has something to teach -- a special, sometimes quirky way to get things done.

Eugene Melnyk: Division managers at Biovail praise Chairman Melnyk for creating an entrepreneurial environment. That atmosphere has helped the firm quadruple earnings in the past five years. Sales of the firm's drug delivery products soared from $66 million in 1996 to $309 million last year.