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What is the more important quality in a CEO, brains or looks? When it comes to pay, looking like a CEO pays off better than performing well.
Wall Street and investors hate to see iconic CEOs resign. Howard Schultz has tried to leave Starbucks before, but this time looks like it will be for real.
Unfortunately, the Business Roundtable CEO Economic Outlook Index is not looking very good at all despite what is still a reading in positive territory.
With 2016 being an election year, everyone keeps getting reminded that the middle class and working class are not getting their fair slice of the economic pie. There might not have been adequate pay...
Chief executive officers often get awarded large sums when their companies are troubled. The Chipotle CEOs should have been candidates to be replaced last year, and still ought to be.
The battle over executive pay has gone on for decades, particularly due to cash and stock option rich contracts of chief executive officers.
As earnings fell apart at Macy's, Kohl's and Nordstrom, their CEOs made tens of millions of dollars.
Intel has changed direction, management said, to focus more on the cloud. The architect of the changes is CEO Brian Krzanich, who made more than $14 million last year.
Tesla Motors paid CEO and founder Elon Musk $37,584 last year, which is the California minimum wage.
The CEOs of Chipotle Mexican Grill paid a terrible price financially for a year in which its shares were punished after tainted food was discovered at a number of its restaurants.
A recent study from Glassdoor showed the 25 highest paying careers in America. The highest paying career on the list is a physician. The second highest was an attorney.
IBM's board rewarded its CEO with $19.8 million in compensation for 2015, an extraordinary repudiation of shareholders who have been livid about IBM's performance.
It has been years since a major strike drove a wedge between the UAW and large car companies. There may be a new one soon.
When Jim McNerney's retirement begins, he stands to collect an annual pension benefit of $3.9 million for the next 15 years. That is a serious pay cut for McNerney.
Compensation among S&P 500 chief executive officers rose about 12% last year, according to consulting firm Towers Watson.