New approaches are emerging to investigate consumer decisions, and two of the most promising appear to point in opposite directions.

CEOs of Italian listed companies: their pay incentives are out of line, because the processes that evaluate them are often not merit-based.

Italy's electoral law: the current system breeds terrible distortions, but simply turning back the clock is not the answer either.

They manage $2.7 trillion worth of assets and were once viewed as a threat to free market capitalism.

Diversified companies have weathered the 2007-2010 storm fairly well; the next strategic weapon will be to jointly use both financial and synergic logics of management.