Top CEO Blunders Of 2014, According To Charlie Harary

Firms like H3 & Company are making the job easier for activist hedge funds and others on the Street by compiling their own lists of blunders made by CEOs.

Charlie Harary was on CNBC Tuesday to reveal and discuss the top blunders made by CEOs in 2014.

"My metrics is figuring out the values that the company is going and where the world is going and how some of the CEOs sort of butted up against it," Harary said. "The world is changing. People expect things from CEOs now. There is privacy issues right now that are up for play and some of the CEOs butted up against it, that’s how I thought about it."

CEOs Who Topped The List

"To me Mike Jeffries [Former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch] is really the beginning and I think, to me thinking about what happened with Abercrombie & Fitch, it's a story of values and how companies really need to understand that value-driven companies make it in the end […] and he resigned and it goes up 10 percent," Harary said.

He continued, "Don Sterling [Former Los Angeles Clippers owner], I think the lesson though that people need to fully get this year and this is for every CEO in the world: words can destroy, the world in which you have this privacy, don’t expect it."