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Between 2007 and 2016, the 19 pharmaceutical companies in the S&P 500 as of January 2017 spent $297 billion repurchasing their own shares to boost their stock price, and thus the value of their executives’ stock options.
When the United States and the European Union decided to impose sanctions on the Libyan regime, including freezing shares owned by the LIA in European and American companies, many executives at these companies were surprised by how dramatically their firms were affected by the ownership structure.
Consider the fate of Hong Kong’s chief executives, hand-picked by China’s rulers to run the city.
Western Europe and Japan have vibrant high-tech sectors, able executives, and cultures easily as capable as the US of taking advantage of the boom promised by the rapidly falling prices of information technology.
When the dust eventually settled, executives from all three networks had resigned.
In particular, their executives operate highly opaque firms, with risks effectively masked from outsiders and very little in the way of loss-absorbing shareholder equity.
For instance, corporations, especially in the financial sector, reward too many executives richly despite mediocre performance.
And he reminded the executives that, “Civilization requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization!”
Only if capital were increased substantially – to “shock and awe” levels – would the banks and their executives conclude, without regulatory instruction, that it is not in their or their stockholders’ interest to take on much risk.
As General Mark Welsh, Commander of US Air Forces in Europe, told top officers and industry executives at a gathering last summer, “We need more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability, and we need it now.”
The persistent rumor circulating among defense company executives is that soon after news of the proposed merger leaked, the weekly commissioners’ meeting chaired by Commission President José Manuel Barroso was enjoined to keep silent on the matter in order to avoid any potential dangers.
In 2007, several executives of the parent company of Purdue Pharma, which markets OxyContin, pleaded guilty to misleading doctors, regulators, and patients about the risk of addiction associated with the drug.
Meanwhile, the companies that have so gleefully enriched their executives and shareholders typically face little, if any, blowback from their illicit or unethical activities.
To say that they were implies three things: top bank executives were rewarded for short-term results with large amounts of up-front cash; bank executives did not hold sufficiently large amounts of stock to align their interests with those of shareholders; and executives with more short-term pay and less stock ownership should have had the greatest incentive to take bad and excessive risks, and thus should have performed worse in the crisis.
Corporate executives manage larger companies.
Starting with the President, continuing through the ranks of Congress and the federal bureaucracy, and extending to the nation's many millions of steadily, safely employed executives and workers, ample health insurance is a guaranteed benefit.
Bank executives, like sinking industrial firm executives, have reason to “pray and delay,” hoping that some new development will save them.
Last December, Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission indicted some of the Nigerians involved, and Italian prosecutors then concluded their own investigation, bringing the executives and the companies responsible for the deal closer to standing trial.
But Italian prosecutors have now requested a trial for several senior Eni executives – including the current CEO, Claudio Descalzi, and his predecessor – as well as Etete and several others; and they are pursuing separate charges against four senior Shell executives.
With so many of America’s top entrepreneurs, executives, and researchers having received support from the defense department, it is no surprise that Google’s founders and executives, for example, have exchanged friendly emails with NSA officials.
To be sure, executives and entrepreneurs like to shake their heads over the current US fiscal deficit.
The scandal at Enron, in its final days, was that management prevented employees from selling their Enron shares while executives unloaded their own shares.
Unions should instead negotiate with management the same way top executives do with their boards of directors when their complex compensation packages are worked out.
Why?Business loved the first paper, because it shifted the conversation from how much executives were paid (a very controversial topic) to how they should be paid (a more technical and less contentious issue).
And, since companies cannot make executives pay out of their pockets for bad performance, the shift in focus ended up justifying an increase in pay.
If workplace abuse is to be curtailed, business leaders and C-Suite executives need a fresh approach.
This is not a new idea; a 2016 study published in the Harvard Business Review found that companies with more high-level female executives generate higher profits.
Human-resource executives at some of the world’s largest companies anticipate profound disruptions from the increased adoption of mobile Internet and cloud technology, the use of big data, flexible work arrangements, 3-D printing, advanced materials, and new energy supplies, according to early results from a survey by the World Economic Forum.
“Systemic importance” has become an excuse for maintaining impenetrable entry barriers (yet another reason why executives want their firms to be regarded as too big to fail).
The top executives at 14 leading financial firms received cash compensation (as salary, bonus, and/or stock options exercised) totaling roughly $2.5 billion in 2000-2008 – with five individuals alone receiving $2 billion.
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