Gerry Gogarty, head of a £30m transformation programme in NHS blood supply, is one of a growing number of public-sector executives studying for an Executive MBA (EMBA).
Executives studied a variety of online business models including those used by Weight Watchers, which charges $17.95 a month plus a $29.95 initiation fee for weight loss guidance, and Apple's iTunes service, which popularized the micropayment with the 99-cent song download.
Executives studied the global practices of multinational corporations like Unilever and IBM, applying what they learned to their own operations.
Before opening the Iowa plant, Barilla's executives studied Kikkoman, a Japanese maker of soy sauce that set up a plant in Wisconsin nearly 30 years ago.
According to the authors of the 2013 Chief Executive Study, women's higher rate of failure is not because they are placed in more challenging roles or set up to fail.
Second, moderators of executive function, such as medication and sleep, were seldom controlled for in studies of executive function performance.
Although executive functions have been widely studied in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), there have been no direct empirical studies of executive abilities in savants with ASD.
Unlike most studies of executive pay, the survey also compared the most common method of estimating the value of stock options with the one that arguably influences executive behavior the most: the options' value based on the current stock price.
Only one of seven studies of executive function found a more rapid decline in DLB, and differences in visuospatial or language tests were not found.
The test is highly relevant because it shares important features with a test commonly used in human studies of executive functioning, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.
