Let's stipulate: Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon are enlightened, broad-gauge chief executive officers, among the finest in the world.
Mr. Dvorkovich said the Russian president would also be going to gauge the chief executives' interest in Russian assets to decide which state companies should go up for sale first.
Consumer confidence, the chief gauge for determining how willing people are to spend, has twisted up and then down in the nearly three weeks since the attacks.
The department has initiated a program called Operation Show Up, which consists of e-mailing and calling applicants to answer their questions and gauge their interest, Chief Collins said.
And even if they have no financial interest in them, they still view economic growth and job creation as the chief gauge of their success.The intentions are goodSEPA did come up with an alternative yardstick, dubbed "green GDP" and intended as a joint measure of both environmental and economic stewardship.
Psychologists also gauge a potential chief executive's threshold for stress, how he manages anger, and how he is likely to respond if the new job involves, say, relocation and uprooting a family.
On Monday morning in New York, the stage management and hype gives way to bargaining, as Mohammad Javad Zarif sits down for the first time as Iran's foreign minister with Lady (Catherine) Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief to gauge how far Iran has really come in from the cold.
In the broad market, the S&P 500 rose 2.07% to 1228.54, while the Dow, the markets chief blue chip gauge, gained 1.74% to 9202.03.
Many possible suitors have approached Alibaba's chief executive, Jack Ma, to gauge his support for their plans.
In a move the company says is unrelated to the report, Sun has hired a polling agency to question chief information officers to gauge their perception of independent analyst firms, including whether they follow those firms' advice.
Many of the potential suitors for Yahoo have contacted Alibaba's chairman and chief executive, Jack Ma, looking to gauge his interest in working with them, these people said.
