Tag Archives: Executive Compensation

It’s the Economy: C.E.O.’s Don’t Need to Earn Less. They Need to Sweat More.

One recent Thursday, G. Steven Farris, the chairman and C.E.O. of the poorly performing oil-and-gas company Apache, stood before a few hundred shareholders who were about to vote on his salary. Farris, who was ... Read more

BlackRock, a Shareholding Giant, Is Quietly Stirring

AT 11 a.m. on a Wednesday earlier this month, Michelle Edkins and her team began wheeling extra chairs into a cramped conference room in a San Francisco office tower, preparing for the corporate-governance ... Read more

Fair Game: Board Directors Disappoint

DIRECTORS of some high-profile public companies are coming under scrutiny this proxy season. Shareholder advocates say it’s about time. The coming meeting of JPMorgan Chase shareholders, to ... Read more

Brazil Opens Inquiry Into Claims of Wrongdoing by Ex-President

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Public Ministry, a body of independent public prosecutors, has begun an investigation into a claim connecting former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to a vast ... Read more

Brazil Opens Inquiry Into Vote-Buying Claims

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Public Ministry, a body of independent public prosecutors, has begun an investigation into a claim connecting former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to a vast ... Read more

Fair Game: Shareholders Can Slow the Executive-Pay Express

RAISES may be hard-won for most American workers these days, but for those fortunate few in the executive suite, the pay increases just keep on coming. Last year, the median chief executive at a United States ... Read more

Executive Pay Shows Modest 2012 Gain, but Oh Those Perks

RELAX. Sit back. And forget, for a moment, those pesky shareholders and bothersome boards, the regulations, the investigations and all the other headaches of being a chief executive today. ... Read more