Just as problematic, others say, is that corporate executives tend to talk down to their nonprofit counterparts.

For example, it has been found that chief executives tend to be taller and have wider faces than average.

The chief executives of the major investment houses tend to act more like chairmen.

The executives tend to support the idea, maintaining that competition for students will improve the schools.

Indeed, executives who have been through one corporate divorce tend to view the next one as inevitable.

He described the two men's pay as fairly typical of the media business, where executives tend to earn more than in other industries.

As a result senior executives tend to concentrate on operations rather than on policy and direction.

Some kinds of behavior are suddenly no longer acceptable, and executives now tend to be more deliberate than bold.

Hubris, too, plays a role: executives tend to believe that their competitors will crack first.

Elder added that, at the time, executives from the company tended to be "low-key."