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• How Much Does The Average CEO Really Earn?

  Hint: it’s a lot less than what mainstream media reports imply. Of the roughly 30 million businesses in the United States, less than 6,000 are publicly traded on major stock exchanges. As anyone who gets his or her information from mainstream news and media outlets well knows, the spotlight and analysis for business (especially in regard to CEO compensation) are firmly focused on S&P 500 companies. That means that virtually 100 percent of media coverage of CEO compensation focuses on less than 8 percent of all public companies and less than .002 percent of all companies in the U.S.

• Director Compensation rose significantly in 2011, fueled by higher retainers and equity awards

  Cash compensation for S&P 500 corporate board directors increased by only 1 percent while total comp increased by 8 percent. Companies are moving away from compensation based upon meeting attendance. Despite long-standing criticism companies continue to offer benefits to directors.

• The $44 Million One Day CEO

  We have to do better on CEO compensation or it will be the undoing of business.

• The Limits of Monetary Incentives

  Money isn't the great motivator people often suppose. In fact, excessive monetary rewards can lead to bad behaviors.

• $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.