Ceo Compensation

Page: 1 2

Pay 'Czar' Feinberg: I'm Not Eager To Use Imperial Edicts

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Bloomberg Washington Summit, Feinberg Executive Compensation, CEO Compensation, Pay Czar, Ken Feinberg, Imperial Edicts, Pay Czar Feinberg, Business News

The man known as President Obama's "czar" of CEO pay, Kenneth Feinberg, said on Thursday that he finds the title "unfortunate" and believes that the c...

Read Whole Story

Vonage CEO, Mark Lefar, Gets Big Boost In Perks Even As Company Stock Tanks

footnoted.org | Michelle Leder | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Mark Lefar, CEO Pay, Airplane-Ticket-Prices, Private Jets, Vonage, CEO Compensation, Business News

What a year it has been [for Vonage] under Lefar. When he joined the company, Vonage stock was trading at around $1.50 and a little over a year later ...

Read Whole Story

Excessive Compensation: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Executive Pay, Irs, Internal Revenue Code, Excess CEO Compensation, Excess-Ceo-Compensation, Internal Revenue Service, CEO Compensation, Obama Executive Pay Cap, Executive Compensation, Obama Executive Pay, Obama-Executive-Pay-Cap, Business News

The Obama Administration recently announced pay limits for bailed-out CEOs. But unless the IRS changes its policies, taxpayers will continue to subsidize unreasonable compensation paid by publicly held corporations.

Read Post

Ratcheting Up CEO Pay -- Or Competing For Talent?

Penny Herscher | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Compensation Committee, Executive Compensation, Business News

There is so much written about fat cat CEOs and their unfair pay packages that it's a question worth pondering. The hard part is judging what is fair and necessary to get the talent you want, and what the market dictates.

Read Post

Obama's Victory? Give Me a Break

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, CEO Pay, Executive Pay, Economy, Economic Crisis, President Obama, CEO Compensation, Executive Compensation, Barack Obama, Business News

If Obama's bill to restrain executive pay is a victory, I don't know what a defeat would look like. The bill does not limit any one's pay by one penny.

Read Post

Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks

Thom Hartmann | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Thom Hartmann, CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Corporate Greed, Business News

What part of being a CEO could be so difficult -- so impossible for mere mortals -- that it would mean that there are only a few hundred individuals in the United States capable of performing it?

Read Post

Rx for CEO Pay: Fire Ours, Hire Theirs

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Wall Street, Indra Nooyi, Business News

Can a zebra change it's stripes? Think of the people you know who have reached adulthood exhibiting deep attitudes of entitlement, selfishness and av...

Read Post

Fear and Looting in America: Is Wall Street on Strike Against the Obama Administration?

Les Leopold | Posted 07.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Toxic Assets, Obama Administration, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, CEO Compensation, Economic Crisis, Business News

How the mighty have fallen!

Read Post

Executive Pay: Treasury to Set Top Compensation At 7 Companies

nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Wall Street Bailout, Chrysler, Bank of America, Gm, Aig, Gmac, Bailout, Tim Geithner, CEO Compensation, Chrysler Financial, Wall Street Pay, Executive Compensation, Compensation-Rules, Pay Restrictions, Citigroup, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's sweeping new proposal to restrict executive pay is likely to be a humbling exercise for seven of the nation's...

Read Whole Story

CEO Pay Plunged In 2008

AP | RACHEL BECK and MATTHEW FORDAHL | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Ceos, John Mack, CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Executive Pay, Jeff Immelt, Business News

NEW YORK — CEOs are taking a hit from the recession _ less total compensation, smaller bonuses, nearly worthless stock options _ but their compa...

Read Whole Story

More CEO Pay Hikes Than Cuts In '08

Yahoo! Finance | Kim Dixon | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Bonus Outrage, Wall Street Compensation, Compensation Wall Street, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More U.S. chief executives got pay raises than had their pay cut in 2008, a year when billions in taxpayer dollars went to prop...

Read Whole Story

The Highest Paid CEO's In Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times | Sandra Guy | Posted 05.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sanjay Jha, CEO Pay, Gregory Brown, Miles White, Ceos, CEO Compensation, Robert Lane, W. James McNerney Jr., Chicago News

Chief executives' pay has become the Enron of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression -- how can leaders who make tens of millions of do...

Read Whole Story

5 CEOs Obama Should Fire

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Smith and Wesson, Barack Obama, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Rex Tillerson, CEO Pay, Clear Channel, Michael Golden, Dave Lesar, Mark Mays, Ceos, CEO Compensation, Edward Liddy, Citigroup, Business News

Obama pressured GM CEO, Rick Wagoner to step down; here are five other CEOs he should consider firing.

Read Post

Wall Street Compensation: Large Payouts In 2008 For CEOs (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: 2008 Salaries, CEO Pay, Wall Street Salaries, Wall Street, Video, CEO Compensation, 2008 Proxy Statements, Proxy Statements, Wall Street Compensation, Randall Stephenson Compensation 2009, At, Business News

It's proxy statement season! Buried within the SEC filings are gems that shed light on a company, including CEO compensation. Among the recent fin...

Read Whole Story

Retiree group to vote against Verizon CEO's pay

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Pay Package Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon Ceo Pay, CEO Pay, Ivan Seidbenberg Pay Package, Verizon, Ivan Seidenberg, CEO Compensation, Verizon Communications, Ceo Pay Verizon, Home News

NEW YORK — A group representing 100,000 retirees said Tuesday it is going to vote against the pay package for Verizon's chief executive, saying ...

Read Whole Story

CEO Bonus Pay Rises Despite Poor Performances (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post via WSJ | Julie Satow | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Bonuses, Ceo, Bonuses Ceo, Slideshow, CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Bonuses, Ceo Bonus Dickerson, Wall Street Journal - Ara Hovnanian - March 18, 2009, Gary Dickerson Bonus, Bonuses Paid to Varian Semiconductor Employees, Business News

Several chief executives were handsomely paid last year even though their company performed terribly, the Wall Street Journal reports. By most mea...

Read Whole Story

CEO Compensation Increases Despite Firms' Troubles

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Ceo Perks, Wall Street CEOs, Wall Street Bailout, CEO Pay, Wall Street, Golden Coffins, Slideshow, CEO Compensation, Executive Pay, Business News

Companies may be floundering, but some chief executives continue to see their pay checks grow. According to Crain's New York Business: Amid the...

Read Whole Story

Should Continuing Education be Mandatory for Board Members?

Bill Donius | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Education, CEO Compensation, Ceos, Fiscal Responsibility, Board of Directors, Business News

The financial mess is bringing to the light that many boards were unable to properly perform the oversight role they are charged to do with public companies. What happened?

Read Post

Wealth Without Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Wall Street Bailout, Main Street and Wall Street, Cnbc, Too Big to Fail, Enron, Main Street, Don McNay, Insurance Companies, Cirtigroup, Small Business Administration, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Wall Street, Charlie Gasparino, Citigroup Bailout, Deregulation, Banks, Kentucky, CEO Compensation, Entrepreneurship, Bonuses, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Bonuses, Personal Finance, Soviet Union, Citigroup, Oregon, Business News

There has been a long and irreversible trend toward small, entrepreneurial businesses, located far from money centers. Instead, Washington keeps throwing money at these "too big to fail" money losers.

Read Post

Congress Should Not Cap CEO Pay, But Look at the Deeper Problems of Corporate Governance

David Paul | Posted 03.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Richard Fuld, Aig, Financial Crisis, Credit Default Swaps, Governance, Lehman Brothers, CEO Compensation, Business News

It needs to be said: The Congress of the United States has no business setting the terms of executive compensation.

Read Post

Steve Forbes: There Should Be Outrage At CEO Pay (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Salary Cap, Forbes, Steve Forbes, Video, Steve Forbes Early Show, The Early Show, Business News

On CBS Thursday morning, Steve Forbes commented on whether there is something wrong when, in 2006, for example, the average CEO made as much in a sing...

Read Whole Story

Arianna Discusses CEO Ethics at "Davos Debates"

Huff TV | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, CEO Pay, Davos, Ceos, Ethics, Pablo Camacho, CEO Compensation, Davos 2009, Wall Street Bonuses, Arianna Huffington, Business Ethics, Business News

Arianna and Pablo Camacho respond to this year's "Davos Debates" question: should company executives have a code of ethics similar to doctors and lawyers?

Read Post

The Rise in CEO Turnover Is a Sign of the Times -- Both Good and Bad

Penny Herscher | Posted 02.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Carol Bartz, Economic Crisis, Ceos, CEO Compensation, Executive Compensation, Jerry Yang, Board Governance, Yahoo, Business News

In the first 9 months of 2008 the number of CEOs who left their jobs hit a record high. In tough times good boards are looking at whether they have the right CEO.

Read Post

CEOs Need to Run for Sheriff Just Once

Don McNay | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

The financial system was supposedly broke. America wants the CEOs begging for cash to act like broke people.

Read Post

Cap Executive Pay

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Executive Pay, CEO Salaries, Business, Ceos, Business Ethics, Financial Crisis, Business News

A salary cap would leave CEOs free to do what is best for their corporations, the economy, and families -- rather than focus on ways to jack up the price of their stock each quarter.

Read Post

Page: 1 2