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When it’s time to make executive compensation decisions, companies seek input from several sources. Those usually include the Compensation committee, the executives themselves, and outside consulting companies that specialize in researching what other executives at the ubiquitous “peer companies” earn. But Comp committees often act as though shareholders – like children born in the 1950s [...]
Anyone who hangs out around kids will eventually hear some whiny version of, “I should get (fill in the blank) because everyone else has it.” But being in proxy season, we find that there’s plenty of executives who try to use that logic, too. Proxy after proxy tells us that – “in order to attract [...]
We’ve certainly picked on cruise line Carnival Corp. (CCL) and its Chairman and CEO, Micky Arison over the years for some unusual perks like Miami Heat tickets and corporate jet usage (see here and here among others). But as we were reading the company’s recent proxy, we actually came across a footnote that seemed worth [...]
Last week’s celebrity telethon and other appeals raised a lot of money for relief efforts in Haiti, where current estimates are that the January 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince affected 3 million people and killed more than 112,000. We wondered if any publicly-traded companies had filed SEC documents that mentioned efforts to help the beleaguered nation, where [...]
January is half over, the news from Haiti is heartbreaking, and right now it seems that the snow will never melt. In all, it’s been a tough few weeks. Fortunately, the 8-K that Red Robin (RRGB) recently filed lets us focus for a moment on something positive and bestow footnoted’s first Gold Star of 2010. Red Robins [...]
