See video reaction to this morning's Mood of the Boardroom breakfast debate between Bill English and David Parker this morning. The issue of tax was the big talking point.

The Herald's Mood of the Boardroom survey asked business leaders to rank MPs' performances. And there's bad news for both major party leaders.

The National Party's prime selling point - "Brand Key' - has been damaged by the "Dirty Politics" revelations.

For BusinessNZ CEO Phil O'Reilly, a sustained shortage of top-tier talent is jeopardising our chances of long-term prosperity.

CEOs have rated Social Development Minister Paula Bennett's reforms at 3.77/5 in the Herald's Mood of the Boardroom survey.

Most CEOs surveyed for Mood of the Boardroom are expecting revenue growth and bottom line profit increases.

Wayne Besant (CEO, AIA NZ), this week, presented to the New Zealand Diversity Forum about business and the case for diversity.

Failed finance company director Trevor Ludlow has done contract work for a receiver with his own fraud convictions since being released on parole.

Vital Healthcare Property Trust has bought a 31-bed psychiatric hospital in Western Australia, for A$13.5 million.

Intensive housing development on land surrounding Cornwall Park is being proposed - but lessees fear it'll result in further hikes to lease fees after new valuations.

Abano shareholders will vote on whether to dump chairman Trevor Janes on Black Friday next month after the medical investor set the date for a special meeting.

The woman who claims she could not afford a $73,750 annual Greenlane leasehold bill was involved in three other multimillion-dollar Auckland property investments.

Abano Healthcare says full-year profit will rise at least 60 percent and has urged shareholders to support chairman Trevor Janes at a special meeting that seeks to have him dumped.

A sorry list of deterioration to a $2 million-plus Auckland mansion at the heart of litigation against a lessee was read out in the High Court this morning.

Abano Healthcare anticipates its Australian and Asian audiology joint venture will start making a positive contribution to earnings in the next financial year.

Abano Healthcare's long-running dispute with two rebel shareholders has been a distraction for its board .

Leasehold land prices around Auckland's Cornwall Park go up about ten-fold when prices are reset every 21 years, the High Court at Auckland was told yesterday.

Abano Healthcare won a bid to sack rebel shareholder Peter Hutson and his wife Anya from their audiology joint venture, Bay International.

Women are recruited disproportionately into tough top jobs - where the title is big but the odds of success are small.