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It has been a very long time since we’ve had “Gold Star Friday” – a day when we shine a spotlight on a company that’s doing something that deserves public recognition. Our team reads hundreds of filings every week (sometimes every day!), and – trust us on this one – really good deeds aren’t nearly [...]
The 10-Ks have slowed to a trickle, and the proxies are flowing in earnest. In them are plenty of revelations about the perks and little luxuries that companies shower on their top brass. If you need no other sign that the tepid economic recovery so far has been good news for executives, the prevalence of [...]
One of the ad campaigns from airline giant United Continental Holdings (UAL) boasts that there may be industry standards, but, “Thankfully, we have our own.” When it comes to executive perks, that’s clearly the case. In fact, a couple of executive benefits laid out in the 10-K that UAL filed on Wednesday strike us as [...]
Forget Google Zeitgeist — if you want to know the real preoccupations of the age, take a look at executive employment contracts. They show clearly what’s on the mind of American captains of industry. That’s how we know, for example, that iPads occupy a special place in many an executive’s heart. But we’re also seeing [...]
We’re getting into that time of year when the filings flow fast and furious, and that means we find a lot of smaller items that are odd, interesting or funny, but may not be worth a full post on their own. Today, we’ve got a bunch of items showing that restraint is not yet dead [...]
