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A dividend payment benefits all shareholders directly, whereas share buybacks directly benefit only the firm’s senior executives.
Volvo executives may be anticipating that traditional vehicles will be less profitable in the future.
According to the Boston Globe, from 2004 through 2008, some four-fifths of retiring three- and four-star US generals went to work as consultants or defense executives.
As these conditions are presumed to be distributed uniformly within the population, they must afflict a significant share of policymakers, corporate executives, educators, and military personnel of all ranks, recurrently rendering them psychotic, delusional, and deprived of sound judgment.
At a stroke, Citi executives demonstrated both their continued political clout in Washington and their continued desire to take on excessive amounts of financial risk (which is what this particular legal change permits).
Repeated attempts to repeal the Postal Service statute always brought violent protests from postal employee unions, Postal Service executives, and rural communities that fear being deprived of services.
More recently, Kaufman was devastating in his cross-examination of Goldman Sachs executives.
This $300 billion is a tax that shareholders of growing companies think is worth paying (or perhaps cannot find a way to avoid paying) for energetic corporate executives.
But, given that the Saenuri Party is traditionally pro-business, Park limits her reform pledges to harsher sentences for convicted chaebol executives and new restrictions on circular equity investment through chaebol affiliates.
Voters complain that outgoing President Lee Myung-bak’s pro-business government – which issued pardons to scores of convicted chaebol executives – gave up on distributive justice and participatory democracy.
Across the full sample, 80% of board chairs and 69% of chief executives are male.
Their senior executives have long enjoyed extraordinary access to the UK government, for example.
Needless to say, many indebted homeowners and leveraged bank executives would have made very different decisions had they thought that there was a non-negligible chance of an outright decline in prices.
This should not be surprising – educational results take years to measure, but profits and bonuses for executives are calculated annually.
The first, heard mostly from executives at leading global banks and their allies, is that the system is safer than it has ever been.
If these charges are true, the bank executives involved may fear that civil lawsuits would uncover evidence that could be used in criminal prosecutions.
There are three classic models of democratic executives: pure parliamentarism, as in Britain; semi-presidentialism, as in Charles De Gaulle’s French Fifth Republic; and pure presidentialism, as in the US.
Careful analysis of statistical data debunked the idea that stressed executives are at a higher risk for heart attacks.
Thailand Turns Banana RepublicBANGKOK – “Thailand’s future is up for grabs,” proclaimed the eminent Thai scholar Thitinan Pongsudhirak just before the country’s Constitutional Court ruled, in effect, that the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and its two smaller coalition partners are “illegal,” and hence must disband due to “election frauds” committed by party executives a year ago.
While there, I caught the tail end of a discussion among senior oil executives who all agreed that at this time next year, crude oil will still be around $60 per barrel, as it is today.
When Congress grills executives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google, glee is evident in news headlines.
But this year, America’s media industry seems more inclined to bank its profits than bolster its reporting on a presidential campaign that even its senior executives acknowledge has become a circus.
But the existence of deposit insurance creates room for abuse, in the form of excessive risk taking, because bank executives get the upside if things goes well, and any potential losses are imposed on the insurance fund.
For example, Trump reportedly launched a devastating trade war because he was “unglued,” and convinced during a meeting with steel executives that tariffs were a good idea.
Loyal chief executives of Russia’s big state companies enjoy long tenures, regardless of whether they meet ordinary standards of efficiency, profit, or innovation.
Today, there is no telling what he earns, as state executives’ remuneration is no longer published.
Executives collected generous bonuses, and equity holders were protected by limited liability.
Moreover, because maximizing shareholder value is a poor incentive for workers and middle managers, companies’ boards have increasingly centralized power around chief executives, thereby encouraging a “heroic” form of leadership that is detached from the rest of the enterprise.
By rewarding executives for risky behavior, and by insulating them from some of the adverse consequences of that behavior, pay arrangements for financial-sector bosses produced perverse incentives, encouraging them to gamble.
One major factor that induced excessive risk-taking is that firms’ standard pay arrangements reward executives for short-term gains, even when those gains are subsequently reversed.
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