Monday, August 26, 2013

REMEMBER TYING CEO PAY TO STOCK PERFORMANCE?

(h/t Kevin Drum)

One method was to give CEOs generous stock options so they would be given an incentive to increase the worth of the company, presumably by working better.   OTOH, what are we to make of the fact that after Steve Ballmer announced that he will resign from Microsoft leading to a dramatic increase in MS's stock price? 

Chart from Alex Tabbarok -


2 comments:

Ken Hoop said...

http://billmoyers.com/segment/mark-leibovich-on-glitz-and-greed-in-washington/

depressing show.

Steve J. said...

Ken,

Thanx for the link.

Steve