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Does short-term management pay?

Posted in CEO, CEO Pay, CEO Salary, Executive Pay, Harvard Business Review, Leadership, Management, Natalie Mizik, Robert Jacobson on September 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Natalie Mizik and Robert Jacobson wrote an article entitled, The cost of myopic management for the July/August edition of the Harvard Business Review in which they explored the costs paid by the organization (and ultimately investors) when they become too focused on short-term revenue targets and begin inflating their earning by cutting expenditures. During [...]

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CEO Pay

Posted in Bob Nardelli, CEO, CEO Pay, CEO Salary, Douglas mattern, Executive Excess, Executive Pay, Golden parachute, Home Depot, IBM, PC World on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I read an article on PC World about the rumored layoffs by IBM – the rumors are reportedly bogus – and I began to reflect on the Douglas Mattern article entitled, CEO Pay is Outrageous and It’s Undemocratic.  In particular, the following quote really stuck with me.

Business Week reports that the disparity between the ‘shop [...]

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Executive Compensation

Posted in CEO, CEO Salary, Ethics, Executive Excess, Executive Pay, LA Times, Occidental petroleum, Options backdating, PBS, Ray Irani, United Health Group, William McGuire on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

 
Everywhere that we look we see articles, reports and blog postings about excessive executive pay.  Now, I admit that I am a bit conflicted.  I do not consider myself a greedy person, but I do believe that I am willing to accept as much as someone is willing to pay me for my absolute best [...]

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