It's thrilling because Disney has made a lot of progress but still has a lot to prove to shareholders, and this is tremendously enhancing to their credibility with shareholders. |
It's, generally speaking, the result of some pressure from shareholders. We're seeing more and more of that, particularly at companies that have not kept faith with shareholders. It's very performance driven. |
Right now, executive pay is like a scavenger hunt. You have to get little pieces of data here and little pieces of data there. |
Short term, it continues to be a terrible problem. |
The Internet Entertainment Writers have gone beyond the usual suspects in nominating performers like Owen Kline ('The Squid and the Whale') and Naomi Watts ('King Kong'), demonstrating their willingness to recognize excellence that transcends age or genre. |
The line between corporate governance and strategy is a fine one. Increasingly, strategy is a legitimate question for shareholders. |
There is really no justification to pay for any living or traveling expenses at that level, particularly now that he is in retirement. |
They get this year's chutzpah award. |
They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed. |
This could go any number of ways ? it could be weeks before this is over. |
This report brings to light the role mutual funds play in enabling excessive compensation and helps investors determine which ones are committed to shareholder value and merit their business. The time is now for mutual funds to use their voting power in the interest of shareholders to tie executive pay to actual job performance. |
Usually, $100,000 invested in the company is enough to make them pay attention. |
We had a period in which companies went public entirely too quickly. Some of them never should have. |
Yes, it's meaningful money, ... But it's still a fraction of what was lost. |
You cannot be on the board of directors and also be doing investment banking work for the company. I don't care if he steps out of the room or not. You cannot be the umpire and the pitcher in the same game. |