Contact Professor Ruth Bender
- Email: r.bender@cranfield.ac.uk
- Twitter: @ruth999
- Blog: http://ruth999-randomthoughts.blogspot.co.uk/
Background
Ruth is Emeritus Professor of Corporate Financial Strategy, having researched and taught at Cranfield for many years. Prior to this she was a partner in Grant Thornton, where latterly she specialised in corporate finance. During this period she undertook various secondments, including a year working as a private equity investment manager in the City. She is a chartered accountant and was for 13 years a committee member of the ICAEW's Faculty of Finance and Management. Other outside roles have included non-executive directorships of a Health Authority and an NHS Trust, membership of the Independent Remuneration Panels for two local authorities. She is the Chair of The Case Centre, the independent home of the case study method.
Ruth has a broad range of teaching experience, including degree courses, open programmes and customised executive education, from new recruits through to board level. Her main teaching areas include corporate finance and corporate governance. Her research concerned the practical implications of corporate governance as it affects boards and board committees. In particular, she has worked with non-executive directors on remuneration committees and audit committees of larger companies.
Her latest book is the 4th edition of Corporate Financial Strategy, published by Routledge.
Publications
Conference Papers
- Bender R & Franco-Santos M. (2017). Unlocking the black box of executive compensation: An investigation of the mental models influencing compensation consultants' advice
- Bender R. (2013). The determinants of executive compensation consultants' advice
- Bender R. (2010). Paying For Advice: The Role of the Remuneration Consultant in UK Listed Companies
- Bender R. (2008). Paying For Advice: The Role of the Remuneration Consultant in UK Listed Companies
- Bender R. (2008). Evaluating the Effective Audit
- Bender R. (2008). Risk Management - What Do Independent Directors Do?
- Bender R. (2007). The platonic remuneration committee, London
- Bender R. (2007). The platonic remuneration committee, Birmingham
- Bender R. (2007). Onwards and Upwards: Why Companies Change their Executive Remuneration Schemes, and Why This Leads to Increases in Pay
- Bender R. (2007). Onwards and Upwards: why companies change their executive remuneration schemes, and why this leads to increases in pay
- Bender R & Moir L. (2006). Does ‘Best Practice’ in Setting Executive Pay in the UK Encourage ‘Good’ Behaviour?
- Bender R, Spira L, Franken A & Braganza A. (2006). The Inner Workings of Audit Committees in the UK: Operationalising Best Practice
- Bender R & Moir L. (2005). Do current practices in UK executive pay encourage ethical behaviour
- Bender R. (2004). Why Do Companies Use Performance‐Related Pay for Their Executive Directors?
- Bender R. (2003). Why do companies use performance-related pay for their executive directors?
- Bender R. (2003). Why do Companies use Performance-related Pay for their Executive Directors?
- Bender R. (2002). How Executive Directors' Remuneration is Determined in Two FTSE 350 Companies: Results of an Exploratory Study
- Bender R & Porter B. (2001). A Model of the Processes of Setting Remuneration for Executive Directors
- Bender R & Porter B. (2001). An Illustrative Model of the Processes of Determining Directors' Remuneration
- Bender R & Porter B. (2001). A model of the processes involved in setting executive directors' remuneration
- Bender R & Porter B. (2001). A process model of directors' remuneration
- Bender R & Porter B. (2001). A New Theoretical Framework to Understand Executive Directors' Remuneration
- Bender R & Porter B. (2001). A New Theoretical Framework to Understand Executive Directors' Remuneration
- Bender R & Porter B. (2001). A Theoretical Framework to Explain Directors' Remuneration
- Bender R. (1999). A Review of Features of Directors' Remuneration Schemes
- Wilding R, Bernon M & Bender R. (1999). Millennium boom and bust: an investigation into millennium stocking policies
Books
- Bender R & Franco-Santos M. (2017). Executive remuneration: Factors influencing consultants’ advice
- Bender R. (2013). Corporate Financial Strategy (4th edition)
- Bender R. (2012). Telling it like it Is: Reporting sustainable performance In Grayson D & Exter N (eds), Cranfield on Corporate Sustainability (1). Greenleaf Publishing.
- Bender R. (2012). Executive compensation consultants In Thomas RS & Hill JG (eds), Research Handbook on Executive Pay. Edward Elgar.
- Bender R. (2011). Reinvesting in the Company versus Rewarding Investors with Distributions In Qfinance: The Ultimate Resource (2). Bloomsbury.
- Bender R. (2011). Valuation In Randolph F & Davey J (eds), The European Law of Commercial Agency (3). Hart Publishing.
- Bender R. (2009). Reinvesting in the company versus rewarding investors with distributions In Qfinance: The Ultimate Resource (1). Bloomsbury.
- Bender R. (2009). Remuneration Committees - Where Next? In FTSE 350 Executive Pay 2009. Addleshaw Goddard.
- Bender R & Ward K. (2008). Corporate Financial Strategy (3rd edition)
- Bender R. (2004). Shareholder value: who performs wins In Botten N & Sims A (eds), Management accounting: business strategy: CIMA's official study system ([2005 edition]). Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
- Bender R & Ward K. (2002). Corporate Financial Strategy (2nd edition)
- Bender R. (2001). Shareholder value: who performs wins In CIMA study system. Management accounting: business strategy. Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
- Bender R. (1998). Strategic Working Capital Management
- Bender R, Ward K & Quinlan J. (1996). Using the strategic management process to establish cost effective services in the NHS In Strategic Business Finance. Kogan Page.