Dividends are typically based on how much a bank (or company, moreover) has profited, less whatever capital is needed from the profit. Simi...

Craig A. Dubow, Gannett’s former chief executive, had a short six-year tenure that was, by most accounts according to The New York Times , ...

Use it or lose it. I am referring to “the habit of [U.S. Government] agencies spending all surplus funding at the end of the fiscal year in...

In 2010, Best Buy’s management adopted executive compensation principles that included a provision that “pay is clearly tied to . ...

Not long after the passage of an E.U. law limiting bonuses for bankers in the E.U., one state government (the usual suspect) filed a laws...

In the United States, executives have been compensated much more than their own non-supervisory workers. This has been so in not only absol...

Inevitably, with any focus comes the opportunity cost of the benefits that could have come from alternative agendas. Put another way, a su...

L. Dennis Kozlowski, a former CEO of Tyco, was denied parole “due to concern for the public safety and welfare,” according to the New York...

Transocean, the world’s largest off-shore oil rig company, owned the Deep Water Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April o...