Finance
Worthy of their hire?
Words by: Morice Mendoza, World Business
Published: 31-Oct-07
For reasons good and bad, CEO pay has reached dizzying heights, and is seeing global convergence, despite local variations
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange comes of age
Source: Morice Mendoza, World Business
Reviewed: 24-Sep-07
World Business spoke with Ester Levanon, CEO of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) on 20 September - the day that the TASE was promoted and reclassified from Advanced Emerging to Developed status by the FTSE Group.
How masters of the universe got burnt
Source: BusinessWeek
Reviewed: 13-Sep-07
It's a familiar story: market exuberance leads to hubris as players begin to believe that the laws of risk and the cycles of boom and bust no longer apply.
Pay gap widens between board and shop floor
Source: The Guardian
Reviewed: 30-Aug-07
Pub groups, retailers and mining companies in the FTSE 100 index have the biggest gaps between pay in the boardroom and the shop floor while banks and landowners have the smallest, according to this year's Guardian/RTF pay survey.
Hiding profit and loss
Source: Capital Ideas
Reviewed: 30-Aug-07
It has long been suspected that fear of competition spurs managers to hide better-than-average business unit profit performance. However, a new study instead finds evidence that fear of increased oversight leads managers to hide less-than-average business unit performance.
On Management: Ancient regime
Source: Simon Caulkin, World Business
Reviewed: 11-Jul-07
The colossal amount of corporate activity hides the fact that current management principles have outlived their use.
