Tag: CEOs

Gordon Gekko found religion last week. Gekko, the lead in the 1987 movie “Wall Street” about capitalism gone corruptly amok, is most...

Compensation for CEOs is growing at double the pace of ordinary workers'.

Corporate boards simply play by market rules. If they don’t, they risk losing their executive talent.

What’s been moving them to action is they don’t like the effects of the hatefulness on business.

Unlike movie stars and athletes, skyrocketing pay for CEOs has nothing to do with markets.

Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.

Runaway CEO pay contributes to income inequality and ultimately harms companies, so local governments aren’t waiting for a federal fix.

A growing number of executives at America’s ‘do-good’ nonprofits are doing much too good – for themselves – at paycheck time.

The Oregon city has just adopted the first tax penalty on corporations with extreme gaps between their CEO and worker pay.

There are clear channels that people can use to put downward pressure on the pay of those at the top in both the corporate and noncorporate sector that don’t require going through Washington.