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- Executive Compensation: Why the Fed Should Steer Clear of Banker Pay
- The Fed is proposing to get involved in overseeing pay at the nation's banks in order to reduce risk in the financial system. But executive pay isn't really the right issue to focus on. Feinberg’s proposals to shift a portion of executive salaries into stock options that would...
- Articles 2009-10-06
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- Valeant Executive Pay Doubles to $19.7 Million Despite Quadrupling of Company's Losses
- Valeant Pharmaceuticals saw its revenues decline, its net loss quadruple, and its cash sink by $109 million in 2008. But the compensation of its top executives doubled, to $19.7 million in 2008 from $8.6 million in 2007. Half of that, $9.7 million, went to CEO J. Michael...
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Gilead Executive Pay: Modest Raises for Outstanding Performance
- Gilead CEO John C Martin got a negligible pay raise in 2008, despite the fact that his company largely met its performance goals. Revenue was up, net income was up, and the stock price held (it's still double the price it was in 2004). Yet Martin's total...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Merck Executive Pay: $36 million, Use of Private Jet, Cash Bonuses Despite Failures
- The top five executives at Merck took home $36 million in compensation last year. All received cash bonuses of between $563,767 and $2.2 million even though two of them had "below-target performance," according to a Merck filing with the SEC. They also got to use the corporate jet, and so...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The executive pay controversy.(Viewpoint)
- Performance pay unfair to most workers the march 12 issue's story on chief executive pay, "Effort to rein in pay gathering steam,'' should have considered one other issue. For the last decade or more, as executive pay has skyrocketed even in Performance...
- Research articles 2007-04-02
- CEOs and their Indian rope trick; Executive pay.(Executive performance and executive pay)(Chief executive officers)
- The link between pay and performance is weak EXECUTIVE pay should reflect performance, right? But does it? A recent survey by the Hay Group, a consultancy, puts the average basic annual salary of the chief executive of a large American firm at $1m. But...
- Research articles 2004-12-11
- US officials takes aim at executive pay
- By Mark Felsenthal and Karey Wutkowski of Reuters WASHINGTON - US officials have taken aim at generous executive pay packages, saying it was offensive that firms receiving substantial taxpayer aid paid their officers and other top employees so lavishly. The Federal Reserve issued guidelines to rein in the compensation of...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Executive pay under attack: how to develop a strategic response - includes related article
- Six steps your organization can take to keep pace with changes while still maintaining effective, successful pay programs.Despite many economic indicators that show a correlation between executive pay and company performance, the heated debate over executive pay levels continues unabated and companies--particularly public companies--must learn how to respond. While it...
- Research articles 1994-06-01
- Looking hard at executive pay: the SEC's proposed disclosure rules on executive compensation will force public companies to look intently at revising their proxy statements. Beyond that, there's a gathering governance storm over executive pay and executiv
- Periodically, some prominent corporate outsider--former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt, Vanguard Funds founder John Bogle or another recognizable name--issues a jeremiad against excessive executive pay. Recently, business l Periodically, some prominent corporate outsider--former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt, Vanguard Funds founder...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Managing the Complex Relationship Between Executive Pay and Performance
- Managing the relationship between pay and performance in executive compensation has never been more challenging. Boards of directors and their compensation committees are charged with ensuring that executive pay programs are aligned with complex business strategies and address increasing shareholder concern about their level and appropriateness. Directors must not only...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Malone means business; TCI chairman hopes to boost cash flow by cutting 2,500 jobs, trimming executive pay and squeezing programers. (John Malone, Tele-Communications Inc.)(includes related articles on the 1996 Western Cable Show and J.C. Sparkman)
- TCI chairman hopes to boost cash flow by cutting 2,500 jobs, trimming executive pay and squeezing programers Cable giant Tele-Communications Inc. cut 2,500 jobs, slashed top executives' pay 5%-20% and froze other executives' salaries last wee TCI chairman...
- Research articles 1996-12-09
- Government Should Regulate Executive Pay
- Harvard economist and law professor Lucian Bebchuk weighs in with an op-ed supporting executive compensation controls now under consideration by Congress. This question is too important to be left up to companies themselves, he writes in the Financial Times. "Regulation of pay in financial institutions is...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Independent Directors, Executive Pay, and Firm Performance
- In the wake of the recent runaway executive compensation and corporate scandals, professions in many circles are calling for more representation by independent directors in American boardrooms. This paper examines the question of whether such directors are better monitors and could curb the largesse of executive pay. Using a sample...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Executive pay a new way - Competitive Compensation Strategies
- For more than a year, the press has focused on executive pay as never before. Executive pay has become the subject of congressional inquiries and even international diplomacy. Now the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC has announced that it will allow stock-holders to submit executive compensation proposals for vote at...
- Research articles 1992-06-01
- The board, the proxy, and executive pay
- The new SEC rules provide an opportunity for the board to communicate its philosophy and objectives. But care must be taken in exercising this freedom.Executive compensation now is a communications issue. When the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new regulations on disclosure of executive compensation, pay moved into a new...
- Research articles 1993-03-22
- Tax audits focus on executive pay practices and retirement plans.(ENFORCEMENT)(Brief Article)
- Executive pay practices of exempt groups will be probed by IRS starting this summer. The Service plans to contact hundreds of charities and private foundations to find out how they pay their top officials. Groups with executives earning $1 million or more will be targeted,...
- Research articles 2004-06-04
- Disney stockholders soothed by color of money. (Walt Disney Co. stockholders elect directors, approve executive pay plan for CEO Michael Eisner despite issues)(includes related article about 'the Michael Ovitz situation')
- Despite uproar over executive pay, lucrative package for Eisner is approved, directors re-elected Michael Eisner worked a tough room last week. During an unusually contentious annual stockholders meeting in Anaheim, Disney shareholders ...
- Research articles 1997-03-03
- One step forward, one backward on executive pay.(Opinion)
- Last week brought both a sign that restraint may be returning to executive pay and evidence that the impulse to overpay top execs remains strong. Krish Prabhu and Michael Birck, CEO and chairman, respectively, of Tellabs Inc., gave up lucrative em Last week...
- Research articles 2006-03-27
- Full disclosure on executive pay.(THE SEC)
- Coming soon: Full disclosure on executive pay. Early next year, look for new Securities and Exchange Comm. chief Christopher Cox to propose that public firms provide more info on packages for top execs. Coming soon: Full disclosure on executive pay. Early next year, look...
- Research articles 2005-12-09
- IRS examinations of executive-pay issues hit jackpot.(ENFORCEMENT)(Internal Revenue Service)(Brief Article)
- IRS examinations of executive pay issues have hit the jackpot. Agents auditing large corporations uncovered so many problems that their findings will be incorporated into routine business audits. IRS examinations of executive pay issues have hit the jackpot. Agents auditing large corporations uncovered so...
- Research articles 2004-07-16
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