The green-eyed Boardroom

Companies looking to the US for their next CEOs are by now familiar with some of the challenges in luring high flying executives to the UK and Europe. UK executives peering across the pond see their US counterparts earning far more, bolstered by more lenient cultural expectations, shareholder leniency on remuneration for performance, a soaring US stock market and strong dollar compared with the weakened pound. And they are jealous.