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The Nasty Truth about CEO Pay

Harvard Business Review

But we still haven't recovered all of the losses from 2008. It plummeted in the fall of 2008 and bottomed out on March 9, 2009 at 676.53. The fact is, because of the structure of their compensation, CEOs are rewarded for share price volatility not performance. Stock Price. 02 Jan 2008. Stock Price.