9 posts and columns on executive compensation

HP CEO Whitman Earned One Dollar Plus $16 Million in 2011

in News on February 3 at 7:27 am PT

CEO Meg Whitman may have taken only a one-dollar salary upon taking the job. But her stock-based compensation totaled more than $16 million last year.
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How SuccessFactors Signaled It Was on the Block

in News on December 9, 2011 at 11:46 am PT

Signs that SuccessFactors was looking to be acquired first showed up in company SEC filings in April.
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Well, That Was $71 Million Well Spent … Time to Sell Off Some More of That Google Stock

in News on June 8, 2007 at 4:28 pm PT

Our Market Share's Getting Smaller. … And Terry's Pay Package is Getting Laaaaarrrrrger.

in News on June 8, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Yahoo’s compensation committee certainly has an interesting formula for executive-salary calculations–one based on an inverse relationship between job performance and financial reward. How else to explain CEO Terry Semel’s pay package for 2006–$71 million, despite a 60% decline in Yahoo’s net income and 35% drop in stock price. $71 million. And for what? A year [...]

Our Market Share’s Getting Smaller. … And Terry’s Pay Package is Getting Laaaaarrrrrger.

in News on June 8, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Yahoo’s compensation committee certainly has an interesting formula for executive-salary calculations–one based on an inverse relationship between job performance and financial reward. How else to explain CEO Terry Semel’s pay package for 2006–$71 million, despite a 60% decline in Yahoo’s net income and 35% drop in stock price. $71 million. And for what? A year [...]

How about a foot rub from the board, Ed?

in News on April 30, 2007 at 3:06 pm PT

What's This 'Ed Whitacre Exit Package Recovery Fee' Doing Under Miscellaneous Charges?

in News on April 30, 2007 at 8:29 am PT

Looks like Verizon Communications Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg’s brief turn as the emblem of America’s out-of-control CEO pay machine has ended. When AT&T CEO Edward “The-Internet-can’t-be-free” Whitacre retires later this spring, he will receive an exit package nearly eight times that of Seidenberg’s $20 million gilded parachute.

What’s This ‘Ed Whitacre Exit Package Recovery Fee’ Doing Under Miscellaneous Charges?

in News on April 30, 2007 at 8:29 am PT

Looks like Verizon Communications Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg’s brief turn as the emblem of America’s out-of-control CEO pay machine has ended. When AT&T CEO Edward “The-Internet-can’t-be-free” Whitacre retires later this spring, he will receive an exit package nearly eight times that of Seidenberg’s $20 million gilded parachute.