It's more with his [influence] on Wall Street. |
Most people have no alternative, particularly those who live in rural areas. A lot of motorists tell us that if there was a decent and affordable public transport system they would use that ... but we are still a long way from having an alternative. |
My first take on it was that one of those elements of pay would have been okay but all three of them ... added together seems to me to be too much. |
Over the past few years, we're talking about a few out of the hundreds and hundreds of CEOs who have been terminated, so it is pretty unusual. |
Small companies are still seeing significant pay growth. |
Sounds like a much more effective use for the money than distributing it to three executives who are already receiving a large amount of compensation. |
The focus of the report is not the CEOs themselves but the bad decisions of the compensation committees that are not paying CEOs for performance. |
The grant of the stock options, however, is less excusable. What they've done is not particularly wise (in this era of scrutiny), but certainly, it's not illegal. |
The link between long-term value growth and long-term incentive awards is broken at too many companies — if it was ever forged properly in the first place. |
The perception has been growing that it is better that there be a clear line of distinction between the people the board hires and the people hired by the corporation. |
The reason the C.E.O. got the job in the first place was to increase long-term revenue. The daily operational results are affected by executives much further down the chain. |
The very idea that someone earning $20 million should need reimbursement for any cost performing their duties as COO is curious enough, ... That they should be reimbursed (for) living in their own house takes it to a different level of absurdity. |
The very idea that someone earning $20 million should need reimbursement for any cost performing their duties as COO is curious enough. That they should be reimbursed (for) living in their own house takes it to a different level of absurdity. |
Their pay doesn't have anything to do with the level of responsibility. And it doesn't seem to have anything to do with how well they run their companies, either. |
There is no lack of stockholder proposals objecting to the size of severance packages and calling for them to be reduced, |