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Executive Pay Lessons From Private Equity, David I. Walker
Executive Pay Lessons From Private Equity, David I. Walker
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Questions about the pay of public company executives – and, specifically, the structure of that pay – continue to dominate discussions regarding U.S. corporate governance. These concerns have been amplified by the recent financial meltdown. Some commentators suggest that the aggressive structure of executive pay packages – the heavy reliance on stock options – may have led to excessive risk taking at financial institutions that contributed to the collapse. Others have argued that incentive compensation has become a fetish in corporate America and that the heavy reliance on performance-based pay is no longer justified. More generally, Professor Frankel argues that …