[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: The Best and the Worst in Executive Pay
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Stockholders have learned that while their shares may sink, executive pay rarely does.
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The role of the executive assistant has drawn scrutiny after the disclosure that the former New York Stock Exchange chairman's assistant was paid $240,000 a year.
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Mention shareholder rights or  excessive executive pay and the typical U.S. chief executive  reflexively drops into a defensive crouch.
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What if chief executives' salaries a were tied to their companies' long-term fortunes?
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Increased oversight of chief executive  compensation has placed a lid on big salary jumps for CEOs in  very large U.S. organizations, according to a survey.
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Media & professional: Martha Lane Fox is to be paid Â£55,000 a year for 15 days' work on the board of M&S. But what will she actually do for her money?
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Think chief executives get fat paychecks? People who manage piles of money do much better.
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FRANKFURT  - Spurred by a criminal trial over fat executive bonuses, Germans are debating whether it's time for their biggest companies to break a long-standing taboo and reveal what they're paying top executives.
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Alec Klein will be online to discuss his article in a Washington Post series about the changes roiling the middle of the American workforce -- the disappearance of many jobs that pay near the national average of $17 an hour, with such benefits as health care and pensions.
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PepsiCo. Xerox. eBay. ADM. Kraft Foods. Sara Lee. Avon. The list of brand-name companies with women chief executives is longer and more impressive than ever, after a year of stunning breakthroughs in corner-office hiring. The first big surprise landed in the spring, when $37-billion-a-year Archer Daniels Midland wooed former Chevron exec Pat Woertz to take over. In June came the next shocker: Kraft Foods, which three years ago had failed to offer enough growth opportunities to keep rising star Irene Rosenfeld from walking away, persuaded her to return as CEO after a dynamic run at Frito-Lay. But the biggest news hit in the heat of August when PepsiCo unexpectedly announced that CEO Steve Reinemund would be stepping down. The front-runner to succeed him, most observers assumed, was an American man, Mike White, who had turned around Pepsi's international operations. Yet Pepsi's board defied the stereotypes, instead tapping Indian-born strategist Indra Nooyi. She had served as president and CFO since 2001 but had never run a line business at Pepsi - as naysayers had long pointed out. Still, by promoting herself as a visionary she won the board's support.
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Suzy Welch, a former editor of the Harvard Business Review and the wife of John F. Welch Jr., the former chief executive of General Electric, has agreed to sell the rights to her book â10-10-10â to Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A person involved in the negotiations said that Scribner paid Ms. Welch a price in the seven figures for world and audio rights to the book. Based on an article Ms. Welch wrote for O, the Oprah Magazine, in 2006, the book offers strategies for making decisions in which people think about what the consequences of a decision will be in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years. Robert Barnett, a Washington lawyer, negotiated the deal on behalf of Ms. Welch. Nan Graham, editor in chief of Scribner, will edit the book with Samantha Martin. Ms. Welch, who wrote the best-selling âWinningâ with Mr. Welch, said she originally thought there wasnât a book beyond the article. But, she said, âI began to encounter this hunger for people who were using it to play out its nuances.â She said the book would include examples from her own life as well as others she has observed using the â10-10-10â process. Susan Moldow, publisher of Scribner, said that although Ms. Welchâs article might seem sufficient for those who wanted to know about the strategy, Ms. Moldow believed the book would sell well. âThe Scarsdale Diet fit on a Xerox-ed sheet that you could fit on the front of a refrigerator,â Ms. Moldow said. âAnd it sold millions and millions of copies. Itâs often true that when something strikes an immediate âAha!,â you really want to have time to meditate on it and try to get to know more about it.â.
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At a time when a chief executive of a large US company is likely to earn in one day what the average worker does in a year, an investment adviser takes the income-disparity controversy a few steps further in "Are the Rich Necessary?"
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Here's something you want to hear next time salary talks begin at your job &#151; your boss saying he wants to spend a lot more money on payroll.
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Spurred by a criminal trial over fat executive bonuses, Germans are debating whether it's time for their biggest companies to break a longstanding taboo and reveal top executive pay.
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Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein will be online to discuss excessive executive pay on Wall Street.
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co. (PG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the maker of Tide laundry detergent and Pampers diapers, on Friday said its top executive earned a base salary of $1.
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The last time Washington tried to curb executive pay, the law backfired. Will Rep. Barney Frank's proposed legislation be different?