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The Motley Fool
November 11, 2009
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Cutting the Cords on Golden Parachutes The era of cushy CEO exits may be ending.   |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Red in Tooth and Clawback Say goodbye to "golden parachutes" and their promise of a soft landing. Inept executives could soon enter the decidedly Darwinian world of "clawbacks." |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
The Truth About CEO Compensation While CEOs fulfill very important roles, they should remember that they are employees, too. They must answer to shareholders, instead of their own greed and hubris. |
The Motley Fool
January 8, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Is CEO Pay Really Out of Whack? Their companies' performance may be faltering, but CEOs' pay packages sure aren't. Is this a new era of corporate greed? What does it mean to shareholders? |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Shareholders of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your inept boards of directors. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Countrywide's School of Higher Earning The mortgage lender's CEO stands to make a mint in severance if the Bank of America deal goes through. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Fool Blog: Why Do We Pay Big Money to Executives Who Failed? The Federal Housing Finance Agency said it will block the severance payments for Fannie's Daniel Mudd and Freddie's Richard Syron, which together had been estimated at up to $23 million. |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2006
Seth Jayson |
Carly's Cash Causes Commotion Carly may be long gone, but HP shareholders haven't forgotten her glitzy exit and are suing for excessive pay. |
Job Journal
February 25, 2007
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros:Sports Stars Can't Compete with Overpaid CEOs Can America bring it's high-flying CEOs down to earth? |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2008
Rich Duprey |
A Backhanded Defense of CEO Pay Congress is hosting a tete-a-tete for the heads or former heads of Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup to discuss how they could reap such windfalls in the face of their company's failures. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards. |
The Motley Fool
June 12, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
What's Your Share? Here's a new way to look at a company as a possible investment: How much of the CEO's salary are you paying? |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough? |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Highway Robbery at Public Companies When companies say "stand and deliver," shareholders need to take a stand. |
The Motley Fool
November 6, 2007
Morgan Housel |
Is Your CEO Worth It? Knowing what the head honcho does behind the scenes makes a big difference to investors. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
CEO Pay: It Just Makes No Sense Let's let the laws of supply and demand work. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Bad News in CEO Pay Think grandiose CEO rewards don't apply in a struggling industry? Think again. |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007
Jena McGregor |
This Proxy Season, Expect A Brawl Add up shareholder anger over the backdating scandal, a slate of new rules on executive pay disclosure, increasing pressure from activist hedge funds, and more companies requiring directors to be elected by a majority shareholder vote, and a tempestuous proxy period lies ahead. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Countrywide Still Rots From the Head Another executive at the troubled mortgage company manages to land safely on his feet. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
11 Companies Rewarding Failure Investors, take a closer look at compensation, and ask yourself whether the CEOs of the companies you own are earning your respect and confidence -- or just earning more than they deserve. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2010
David Lee Smith |
BP's Crucial Step Forward At BP, the Americans are coming and the British are going. Has the stock become a buy? |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Countrywide Comforts Investors ... to a Point Countrywide's third-quarter earnings had investors celebrating, but what's the bigger picture? |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Foley & Reed |
Tony Hayward Gets His Life Back The former head of BP is launching a new venture in the oil business |
AskMen.com
Simon Sinek |
The Desire To Lead: Simon Sinek BP CEO Tony Hayward is finally getting what he wants -- to leave his job. Based on how he has acted throughout the disaster, it seems so clear that he didn't want the job in the first place. |
The Motley Fool
September 8, 2010
Cliff D'Arcy |
BP Is Only Partly to Blame BP's report shows that the oil giant isn't wholly to blame for disaster in the Gulf. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Those Poor Rich People Get out your tiniest violin: The cult of wealth is losing luster. Why would anybody in their right mind defend nasty, money-grubbing, selfish behavior? We've got to stop. |
BusinessWeek
February 26, 2007
Jane Sasseen |
A Better Look At The Boss's Pay New SEC rules require greater disclosure, but don't expect CEOs to take a hit. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2009
David Lee Smith |
The New Star of the Big Oil Show After years of mishaps, BP is an ascending star. |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Tenured Tyrants in Corporate America Instead of pink slips, many underwhelming CEOs get fat paychecks. Will that soon change? |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007
Brian Grow |
Out At Home Depot Behind the flame out of controversial CEO Bob Nardelli. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
CEOs Still Raking It In Are CEOs really 301 times more valuable than rank-and-file employees? |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2007
Morgan Housel |
3 CEOs Who Should Go Nobody is perfect, but these guys should be shown the door. Now. Read on about Angelo Mozilo... James Tobin... John Mackey... |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Heck of a Job! Here's a Bonus! Shareholders need to start pushing back on compensation policies. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Home Depot Gets Religion The board of directors requires a two-thirds vote to approve CEO pay. Now let's see what else its members can come up with to restore investor confidence in their ability to lead Home Depot forward. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Limits on CEO Pay Have No Bite The bailout bill's supposed limits on CEO pay are much ado about nothing. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2010
David Lee Smith |
Can Its First American CEO Save BP? Robert Dudley's reign is just beginning; can BP make it? |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2010
Mac Greer |
Buffett's BP Play? An interview with Georgetown professor Prem Jain, author of Buffett Beyond Value: Why Warren Buffett Looks to Growth and Management When Investing, about whether BP is a stock for Buffet now. |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
How Corporate Culture Makes Shareholders Rich As you go about your investing, look at corporate cultures and recognize their value, and pay attention when there's turnover at the top. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2009
David Lee Smith |
BP Is Back in Shape and Ready to Go Operating under new management, BP is making things happen. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2010
Rich Smith |
3 Cheers for BP! At long last, we've found a company with a conscience. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2011
Robleto & Chan |
4 Breakups Costlier Than Kim Kardashian's Breaking up is hard to do, but can be quite profitable for executives. Take steps to ensure that you're investing in companies that are aligned with shareholder interests. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2011
Owain Bennallack |
BP's Historic Russian Deal After disaster and hostility in the U.S., BP looks east for its future. |
InternetNews
March 9, 2006
Roy Mark |
HP Stockholders After Fiorina Severance Unions claim the Hewlett Packard board violated its own rules for executive compensation in a $41 million deal. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
Executive Pay Top CEO paychecks in 2003 were, as usual, off-the-charts amazing. But the pace of overall raises for execs slowed considerably |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2010
Tom Gardner |
Stand Up for Bastards: Berkshire vs. Apple It's all about succession for these two great businesses. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2009
David Lee Smith |
Is Buffett Making Another Big Oil Mistake? Buffett clearly erred by buying ConocoPhillips at the top; but should he be selling it now? |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Corporate Boards Need to Wake Up One of investors' biggest problems -- whether they know it or not -- has been a tendency toward ineffective, entrenched boards of directors that don't do their primary job, which is to look out for shareholder interests. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Foreshadowed Losses You Shouldn't Ignore You might one day regret that complacent proxy vote. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2007
David Lee Smith |
BP Can't Buy a Break A partial shutdown of Prudhoe Bay shipments and difficulties in its Russian operations mean the company hasn't yet turned the page on bad news. Investors, take note. |
