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The Motley Fool
January 9, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Home Depot Gets Religion The board of directors requires a two-thirds vote to approve CEO pay. Now let's see what else its members can come up with to restore investor confidence in their ability to lead Home Depot forward.   |
The Motley Fool
January 8, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Is CEO Pay Really Out of Whack? Their companies' performance may be faltering, but CEOs' pay packages sure aren't. Is this a new era of corporate greed? What does it mean to shareholders? |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 13, 2006
Jay W. Lorsch |
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do Compensation committees are under pressure to keep CEO pay high, even as shareholders and the media agitate for moderation. The solution? Boards of directors need better competitive information and an ear to what shareholders are saying. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 9, 2004
Lucian A. Bebchuk |
Bring Shareholders into the Board Room How can we improve board performance? One way is by reducing the extent to which boards are insulated from, and unaccountable to, shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2006
Rich Duprey |
Home Depot Abdicates Responsibility When management and directors abdicate their responsibilities, what can shareholders do? Either oust management and the board, or oust the stock from your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Home Depot Trims CEO Salary Frank Blake draws a more modest paycheck than his much-criticized predecessor. He "gets" that investors in Home Depot are fed up with the board of directors giving away their wealth to the CEO. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 5, 2006
Joseph Hinsey |
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction Corporate governance reformers are pushing the idea of majority voting for directors. But that solution won't produce the desired outcome. The answer? Keep CEOs and board chairs separate. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
CEO Pay: It Just Makes No Sense Let's let the laws of supply and demand work. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2005
Jill Jusko |
Beefed Up Boards More diligent and accountable, today's directors are scrutinizing executive compensation like never before -- and changing the dynamic of the board-management relationship. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
CEO Turnover Spikes Volatility in the economy does not necessarily lead to volatility in the C-suite. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Are the CEOs of Google and Apple Underpaid? Did the former CEO of Home Depot deserve to get nailed for his pay package? What do investors really need to know about executive compensation? |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2006
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Listen, Learn, Change The daily headline trail for Home Depot is beginning to rival that of any high profile Hollywood breakup. Many investors and other observers are piping mad right now. But things should eventually blow over; the company itself is performing quite well. |
U.S. Banker
June 2006
Rebecca Sausner |
Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
The Truth About CEO Compensation While CEOs fulfill very important roles, they should remember that they are employees, too. They must answer to shareholders, instead of their own greed and hubris. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 30, 2003 |
Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end? |
IndustryWeek
November 17, 2010 |
Board Member Today; CEO Tomorrow The number of Fortune 1000 directors who became the CEOs of the companies on whose boards they served more than doubled in the past year. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Magyer & Moscovitz |
Let's Fix Board Elections Part of an ongoing series about the Shareholder Bill of Rights currently in Congress. In this article, board elections. Whom will you pick to run the ship? |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2008
Rich Duprey |
A Backhanded Defense of CEO Pay Congress is hosting a tete-a-tete for the heads or former heads of Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup to discuss how they could reap such windfalls in the face of their company's failures. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
BusinessWeek
January 22, 2007
Byrnes & Sasseen |
Board of Hard Knocks Activist shareholders, tougher rules, and anger over CEO pay have put directors on the hot seat. |
Entrepreneur
February 2009
Chris Penttila |
CEO Salaries in the Crosshairs Pay-for-performance structures are enjoying a resurgence. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2005
Rich Duprey |
CEOs Get the Golden Boot Boards of directors are giving away shareholder money to outgoing executives as compensation for poor performance. Shareholders ought to take note of how their boards deal with management separation. |
Bank Director
4th Quarter 2010
Kimberly Crowe |
2010 Director Compensation Review The results of the latest compensation survey offer an in-depth review of industry pay practices and reveal how the latest issues and trends in compensation are affecting banks and directors nationwide. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Kerry J. Sulkowicz |
CEO Pay: The Prestige, The Peril CEOs should reflect on the impact of their pay on their boardrooms and employees. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
CEOs Still Raking It In Are CEOs really 301 times more valuable than rank-and-file employees? |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 8, 2005 |
Readers Respond: Is There an "Efficient Market" in CEO Compensation? Readers offer varying viewpoints and solutions on the topic of CEO compensation. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards. |
BusinessWeek
June 11, 2007
Jena McGregor |
Activist Investors Get More Respect Boards are listening, and shareholder proposals are making headway. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2007
Rich Duprey |
CEO Job Under Construction at Home Depot Chairman and CEO Bob Nardelli resigns. But is real change on the way? Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007
Jena McGregor |
This Proxy Season, Expect A Brawl Add up shareholder anger over the backdating scandal, a slate of new rules on executive pay disclosure, increasing pressure from activist hedge funds, and more companies requiring directors to be elected by a majority shareholder vote, and a tempestuous proxy period lies ahead. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 30, 2006
Bebchuk & Khurana |
The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve "star" compensation? Or are they benefiting from a "market myth"? |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Ups and Downs for Women A new report on the progress of women in the workplace features some interesting results. Why does this topic matter to investors? Some studies suggest that having more women on a board of directors can lead to better governance. |
Managed Care
April 2004 |
Pharmacy Directors See Healthy Increase in Pay in 2003 Salaries of pharmacy directors in 2003 were up substantially from 2002. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Shareholders Are Winning ... Slowly CEO overcompensation is gradually being challenged in corporate America by shareholders, through resolutions and annual meeting proposals. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 1, 2005
Jim Heskett |
Is There an "Efficient Market" in CEO Compensation? There is evidence of little or no relationship between the size of CEO compensation awards and corporate performance. Why? |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Bad News in CEO Pay Think grandiose CEO rewards don't apply in a struggling industry? Think again. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough? |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 7, 2003 |
Those Who Sit on Company Boards Face a New, Tougher Job Description Two longtime executives and board members talk about the changing role of boards of directors in what they say is becoming an increasingly volatile, litigious and risky environment. |
Bank Director
3rd Quarter 2009 |
Compensation at the Fore In this sampling of bank directors' opinions on the hot topics of the day, we look at issues related to executive compensation. |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007
Brian Grow |
Out At Home Depot Behind the flame out of controversial CEO Bob Nardelli. |
Managed Care
December 2007 |
Medical Directors' Pay up 37% Since `97 -- or Not Salaries of medical directors and associate/assistant medical directors have risen by more than 30% over the last 10 years, according to a 2007 survey. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
CEOs: Do the Right Thing! 2008 was a bad year for shareholders and workers. Some CEOs made out like bandits, though. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 22, 2003
Martha Lagace |
How to Build a Better Board Boards need to work smarter and with a design in mind, says Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch. Lorsch discusses his new book Back to the Drawing Board, co-written with Colin B. Carter. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2000 |
Corporate Governance Roundtable At this year's NAREIT Law and Accounting Conference, one of the most talked about panel discussions was on the topic of corporate governance... |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2011
Adam J. Crawford |
Picking the Next Apple Based on insider ownership, that is. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Corporate Boards Need to Wake Up One of investors' biggest problems -- whether they know it or not -- has been a tendency toward ineffective, entrenched boards of directors that don't do their primary job, which is to look out for shareholder interests. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2010 |
The Motley Fool's Testimony on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Empowerment Shareholders should have a bigger say in how companies are run. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Ilan Moscovitz |
Let's Fix Director Nominations Should we make it easier for shareholders to nominate their own representatives? |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2005
Gardner & Mann |
Quality Systems: Board Battle Rages On The electronic records software provider's final slate of directors is being contested by dissident shareholder and director Ahmed Hussein. If a lawsuit is brewing from the vote count, management and its board should have revealed it to shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Corporate Boards Are Broken Extreme measures are needed to get boards to do their jobs. |
