Not all the cases feature wonder women, but studying executives of all kinds gives students a "mental Rolodex of role models," Ms. Hatten said.
"I think what this president is doing is pretty typical when Congress is controlled by the other party," said Louis Fisher, who has studied executive authority for the Congressional Research Service.
The stock price of G.E. from the time the 64-year-old took over the company 20 years ago is a vertiginous vertical line that has made him the most widely aped and studied executive in the land.
A partial explanation for this is the fact that the tasks designed to study executive function in aged monkeys, to date, primarily have probed shifting and inhibition processes.
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).
For executives, "it is not unusual to see that 'for cause' equals felony, which is, of course, absurd," said Nell Minow, a co-founder of the Corporate Library, a research group in Washington that studies executive contracts.
According to Sylvia Ann Hewlett's 2002 study "Executive Women and the Myth of Having it All," the upper limit for nearly half of women corporate high-achievers is zero.
Women frequently say they wish they could have more opportunities for sponsorship, according to Catalyst, a New York-based non-profit that studies executive women and leadership globally.
The study executive committee comprises Professors Morris Brown, Tom MacDonald and Bryan Williams.
In our study, executive components of apoptosis, especially CASP3, highly correlated with BMI, while BCL2 correlated negatively.
