"Our offices have been overwhelmed with calls from local companies asking about them, " says Daniel Marcu, executive director of Towers Perrin Argentina, compensation consultants.

FORBES: Capitalism is contagious

"Our offices have been overwhelmed with calls every day from local companies calling us to ask about them, " says Daniel Marc, executive director of Towers Peril Argentina.

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Doug Friske, global head of executive-compensation consulting for Towers Watson, expects total CEO compensation to rise a "couple percentage points" this year.

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But Stephen Byers, the minister responsible, steered the company into the hands of another group led by John Towers, the company's chief executive when it was sold to the German carmaker in 1994.

ECONOMIST: Rover

Stuck on the tarmac at Newark International Airport in his Gulfstream V on Sept. 11 and cut off from the world when his cell phone wouldn't work, EDS Chief Executive Richard Brown silently watched out a jet window as the World Trade towers across the Hudson River burned and collapsed.

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