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$13 Million for Being Fired?

Leo Apotheker was paid $10 million to come on board as HP’s CEO and then he was paid another $13 [...]

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter October 6 2011

$38 Million Turns into $1 Million: Stanford Finds the Real Value of Executive Compensation Packages

There are many ways to measure executive compensation packages, and in its paper, “What Does It Mean for an Executive to ‘Make’ $1 Million?” Stanford Graduate School of Business explores what CEOs really take home (not just what the media says they do). For example, in 2008 Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit took home over $38 million in reported compensation, but that translates to $2.9 million earned compensation, or just over $1 million in realized compensation.

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter , CEO Compensation December 29 2011

10 Cases of How Competition in Health Care Lower Costs and Raise Quality Outcomes

This lack of competition for patients has a profound effect on the quality and cost of health care. Providers typically do not disclose prices prior to treatment because they do not compete for patients based on price. Payments are usually not made by patients themselves but by third parties — employers, insurance companies or government. But according to Devon M. Herrick, Ph.D., a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, in health care markets where providers do compete for patients, not only do prices come down, but outcomes improve.

ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter , Health/Benefits February 27 2013

10 CEOs Earn ‘Only’ $1 a Year

CEO.com assembled a list of 10 “big-time CEOs” who earn a base salary of just $1 a year. At a time when most CEOs are notorious for enormous pay packages (on average $10.5 million, according to Forbes), these 10 have opted for something less lofty. They do have one thing in common: all are entrepreneurial with all but one—Eddie Lampert—having founded a business. Yes, Virginia, founder-entrepreneurs do think differently than manager-CEOs.

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter March 27 2013

10 Companies with the Biggest Cash Stockpiles in America

Writing in Seeking Alpha, investment analyst and newsletter author David Sterman identifies 10 companies that are sitting on significant cash piles. Stunned to find how much some companies were sitting on, he says in some instances, these companies have such a large amount of cash that it equals or surpasses what some countries produce in terms of annual economic activity (GDP).

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter , Corporate Finance October 4 2012

10 Steps to Succeed in Effective Use of Social Media

Every business knows about social media, many businesses have some sort of social media presence, but very few have implemented a comprehensive and successful social media strategy that maximizes benefits and mitigates risks. Why is this? The answer is simple: The Three “C’s:” Content, Context and Conditions.

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter , Leadership & Strategy , Technology September 6 2012

10 Ways to Tell We’ve Started the ‘Great Recession Part II’

Technically the Great Recession ended in 2009, but two years later the American business climate is still feeling the pain. [...]

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter August 3 2011

11 Powerful Women: Business Advice from the C-Suite

The are only 18 Fortune 500 CEOs who are women, and The Wall Street Journal asked 11 of them what it [...]

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter May 24 2012

13 Percent CEO Turnover, Highest Rate in Six Years

2010 brought in the lowest rate of CEO turnover in 15 years, but somehow the landscape has shifted in the [...]

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter September 8 2011

18 CEOs Give Advice on Your First Year in the C-Suite

Since the office of Chief Executive is held by so few individuals, it’s not always easy to get firsthand advice [...]

 JP Donlon CEO Briefing Newsletter May 31 2012

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