Topic
executive compensation
1,539 published works
Securities Law Prof Blog
AALS Section on Business Associations Call for Papers
AALS SECTION ON BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONSCall for Papers JANUARY 2009 ANNUAL MEETING The…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
NY Legislators Concerned about Fancy Cars for Nonprofit Executives
One of the compensation perks for top executives at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, in New York, is a car allowance - up to $600 a month. As Alvin…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Shareholder Votes On Say on Pay Down at Big Banks
Shareholder support for "say-on-pay" proposals at the four big banks -- Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley -- averaged 37% of shareholder votes. While that's a healthy…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-5 Benefits/Compensation/Pension SSRN Downloads
Michael D. Hurd (left) & Susann Rohwedder (right), The Retirement Comsumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data (297).Yaniv Grinstein, David Weinbaum, & Nir Yehuda, Are Perks Excess? Evidence from…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Say on Pay Votes Are Down This Year
Is the "say on pay" shareholder proposal campaign losing its momentum? While Aflac yesterday became the first major U.S. corporation to give its shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation,…
The D&O Diary
Check the CFO’s Pay Packet, Too
Commentators have long focused on CEO compensation as a leading corporate governance concern. Indeed, the Corporate Library has even suggested (here) that CEO compensation practices that “are poorly-aligned with shareholder…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Freddie Mac’s Compensation Committee Cites Accomplishments in Awarding CEO Compensation
Freddie Mac lost $3.1 billion in 2007, its first annual loss, and its regulator Ofheo reported to Congress that the company remains "a significant regulatory concern." Yet the company's compensation…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Rosen on Executive Compensation
Who Killed Katie Couric? And Other Tales from the World of Executive Compensation Reform, by KENNETH M. ROSEN, University of Alabama - School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. …
Labor Law Prof Blog
Rosen on Executive Compensation Reform
Kenneth Rosen (Alabama) has just posted on SSRN his article Who Killed Katie Couric? And Other Tales from the World of Executive Compensation Reform. Here's an excerpt from the abstract:…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Countrywide’s CEO Does Well
Countrywide Financial's CEO Angelo Mazilo made $121.5 million in 2007 from exercising stock options under a Rule 10b5-1 plan. He also received $22.1 million in compensation -- $1.9 million in…