Archive for the 'Chairman' Tag

A couple days ago, we footnoted the curious case of the big raise for the part-time chief executive at Ascent Media (ASCMA), a company spun off from the empire of a larger-than-life figure, John Malone. So imagine our surprise when we found another spin-off creating not one but two part-time chieftains, at another communications company with [...]

In its discussion of executive pay in the proxy it filed on Friday, tool giant Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) hits many of the right notes, including this one: “As a general rule, the Company does not believe it is necessary for the attraction or retention of executive talent to provide our executives with a [...]

Executives get paid a lot, we all know that, and then they often get paid more on the way out the door. Fine. But every now and then, a filing comes around that makes us wonder: Where can we sign up? So it was with the transition details for Charles G. Berg, unveiled in an [...]

Léo Apotheker’s hire as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) got plenty of press over the weekend, including invective from Oracle’s ever-entertaining Larry Ellison. But while estimates of Apotheker’s pay package varied — bigger than Mark Hurd’s! roughly on par with Mark Hurd’s! (all depending on how you value the equity, of course) — another HP pay [...]