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executive compensation
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Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Will Executive Pay Limits Hurt Charitable Donations?
Today's Wall Street Journal contains a hand-wringing, teeth-gnashing article asking the question whether executive pay limitations in the Obama stimulus plan will hurt charitable donations: Americans gave more than $300…
Pension Risk Matters
2008 Bonuses Deserve Scrutiny
Wall Street executive compensation is a big story these days. Given the importance of the topic and the impact on institutional investors, I accepted the invitation to write a guest…
Smooth Transitions
Merrill Lynch Bonuses – Cuomo Part II
By Rob Radcliff
Since my entry two weeks ago, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo chimed in again on Merrill Lynch 2008 bonuses in a letter (.pdf) to Congressman Barney Frank, Chairman of the…
Federal Securities Law Source
New Executive Compensation Limitations
Yesterday, President Obama announced that the Treasury had adopted new guidelines for financial institutions that are receiving government assistance. The Treasury press release discusses these new restrictions.
Smooth Transitions
Compensation Litigation – Bonuses Under the Microscope
By Rob Radcliff
Executive compensation is under attack. It's an easy target for politicians when $20 billion in bonuses were handed out while the economy was in free fall. New York AG Andrew…
Labor Law Prof Blog
SSRN Top-10 List of Recent Employment & Labor Downloads
David C. Yamada, Workplace Bullying and Ethical Leadership (592).Katherine Van Wezel Stone, John R. Commons and the Origins of Legal Realism; or, the Other Tragedy of the Commons (143). J.…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Cuomo Issues Subpoenas to Thain on Merrill Lynch Bonuses
STATEMENT FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL ANDREW CUOMO REGARDING NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN INVESTIGATION OF MERRILL LYNCH BONUSES AND BANK OF AMERICA:"Today, as part of our ongoing inquiry into executive compensation issues at…
ContractsProf Blog
Pay for Performance: Would It Work in Professional Sports?
Harvard's Lucien Bebchuk has done great work to advocate that corporate executives' pay be linked to their actual performance. His 2004 book, co-authored with Jesse Fried, Pay Without Performance has…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Schapiro’s Responses to Some Questions by Senator Levin
Senator Carl Levin has posted on his website Mary Schapiro's responses to a list of questions the Senator submitted to her about her vision for the SEC. Here are some…
La Revue
Rémunération des dirigeants : quelques bonnes résolutions pour 2009 !
Laurence Parisot, Présidente du MEDEF, a présenté le 6 octobre une version actualisée du « code de gouvernement d’entreprise » pour une autorégulation des entreprises sur les rémunérations des dirigeants…