Executive Lifestyles
CEOs Back in Corporate Jets
While U.S. boards have curtailed company-paid perks like hunting lodges and golf club memberships, CEOs are cranking up personal use of corporate jets. The boards defend the perk as a tool to ...
Loyalty No Longer Rewarded as Airlines Cut Free Upgrades for Frequent Flyers
For business flyers like Adam Kubryk, who is on the road about 200 days a year, one of the perks of flying often and using the same airline regularly is getting upgraded from coach to business class ...
‘Body Hack’ App by Math Researchers Shortcuts Jet-Lag Recovery
A different kind of jet-lag mobile app, released Thursday by University of Michigan mathematicians, reveals previously unknown shortcuts that can help travelers snap their internal clocks to new time ...
CEO Perks Taking Different Forms: More Life Insurance Replacing Corporate Jets
For some executives, corporate perks are getting just a little less exciting. A number of major U.S. companies are cutting back on glamorous luxuries like personal jet use, country-club memberships, ...
RSA Insurance CEO’s First Year Compensation May Top $9 Million
RSA Insurance Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester, drafted in to turn around the U.K. insurer, may be paid as much as 5.6 million pounds ($9.3 million) for his first 12 months in the ...
Meditation Good for Business Executives, Not Just Monks: Third Point’s Loeb
Daniel Loeb, the billionaire founder of activist hedge-fund firm Third Point LLC, said spirituality is good for business. "Meditation, contemplation -- it's not just for monks and hermits," Loeb, 52, ...
Make Sure That Classic Car Isn’t a Fake
In the 1930s, British sports-car maker MG made exactly 33 of the K3 open-top race car. If you want to buy one now, there are more than 100 to choose from. No, the defunct carmaker didn't restart ...
Insurance Media CEO, an Ex-Cop, Pulls Man From Burning Wreck
There may be no such thing as a retired cop; it's more like they are "off duty." It's a mindset that many former police officers and emergency response professionals seem to share. After spending 16 ...