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The Nasty Truth about CEO Pay

Harvard Business Review

Yes, the market is rebounding; the S&P 500 was up 13% over 2010. The S&P 500 (which represents 75% of US market capitalization) hit its all-time high of 1,565.15 Black-Scholes Valuation based on stock price at issue. 04 Jan 2010. $80. Black-Scholes Valuation based on stock price at issue.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality. To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S.

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