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Taking Stock -- Salary And Options Too: The Looting Of Corporate America, Kenneth R. Davis
Taking Stock -- Salary And Options Too: The Looting Of Corporate America, Kenneth R. Davis
Kenneth R. Davis
Abstract “Taking Stock – Salary and Options Too: The Looting of Corporate America” Executive compensation has come to mean corporate greed. CEO pay has soared to incomprehensible levels. Even during the current financial crisis, more CEOs saw pay increases than cuts. Public resentment to multi-million dollar paychecks swelled to outrage when AIG and Merrill Lynch used bailout funds to dispense enormous bonuses to executives. The looting of America’s corporations has led to numerous strategies to curb executive compensation. These strategies include heightened corporate disclosure requirements, tax incentives, say-on-pay, and shareholder input into the process for nominating directors. All these strategies …
Guidance On A Topic That Spans Practice Areas And Professions (Reviewing P. Garth Gartrell And Steven P. Lapidus, Executive Compensation For Emerging Growth Companies (2008)), Michael Hussey
Michael Hussey
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