Excess Ceo Compensation

How High CEO Pay Hurts the 99 Percent

William Lazonick | Posted 04.04.2012

William Lazonick

It is about time that we took control of exploding executive pay. It is not just that the sums involved are unfair, and as history has shown, will only become more obscene. These executives control the allocation of resources that represent the well-being of the 99 percent.

A Dangerous Pattern: Rewarding Failure

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011

Ron Ashkenas

Cross-posted from Harvard Business Online Over the past few months there has been growing anger and frustration about outsized Wall Street bonuses aw...

Excessive Compensation: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Aaron Zelinsky

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.

John McCain's New Populism?

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Diane Francis

McCain can "pledge" to reform Wall Street business practices all he wants, but he hasn't walked the walk in the Senate in past years, nor has his party ever done so.