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For Ray Lane, the years after leaving Oracle Corp. with a $1 billion fortune were supposed to cement his reputation as a shrewd Silicon Valley executive.
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Pay for directors at Standard & Poor’s 500 Index companies rose to a record average of $251,000 last year, the sixth straight year of increased compensation since federal rules began requiring disclosure.
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Robert Kotick, president and chief executive officer of Activision Blizzard Inc., increased his compensation almost eightfold to $64.9 million last year, becoming one of the highest-paid CEOs in the U.S.
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Wells Fargo & Co., the most valuable U.S. bank, paid a board member’s son about $1.4 million last year for his work in a unit responsible for investing deposits.
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As much as higher education and corporate America would like to be engaged, college presidents are struggling to reconcile the demands and values of academia with shareholder skepticism about their boardroom commitments.
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Blockbuster Inc. ’s stock must be worth something, according to Ron Krenn, a 48-year-old day trader in Daytona Beach, Florida, who hopes to profit on the equity of what was once the world’s largest movie rental chain, seven months after it filed for Chapter 11.
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News Corp.’s phone-hacking crisis claimed two top newspaper executives as Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch defended his handling of the scandal and the FBI began a U.S. probe of the company.
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We don’t let students grade their own exams, but we let CEOs chair their own boards.
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It is often said that social change can’t occur until what was seen as misfortune is seen as injustice. There is a corollary in the financial world. It says change can’t occur until what was seen as immaterial is seen as risky. That’s happening with executive compensation.
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Greg Palm , Goldman Sachs Group Inc. general counsel, took a call in his 37th-floor office at One New York Plaza on Dec. 16, 2008. It was his old boss, Stephen Friedman , a former Goldman chairman who was then head of the audit committee of its board of directors. Goldman’s stock was down 65 percent from its 52-week high during an accelerating global financial breakdown.
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