It is common for top executives of universities and private charities to earn salaries in the millions of dollars because they can point to executives of comparably sized companies who earn several times as much.
Yet things often look decidedly more unnerving from the vantage point of the executive on the firing line.
At Expedia, Khosrowshahi made a point of hiring executives who "didn't look like me," and developed programs to increase the number of women.
As the company starts a series of 2013-14 upresentationstatinns, in markets like Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York, a primary selling point of its executives is to create commercials that are styled like program content — some even featuring the hosts of shows who appear on the channels.
In his state-of-the-state speech on February 8th he made a point of welcoming executives from LegalZoom, a legal-documents company from Los Angeles that opened a regional office in Austin last year, nudged by generous incentives from the state and city.Still, there is something troubling about the picture.
Case in point, the flurry of executive nominations confirmed and simple, uncontroversial bills passed through the Senate just before the August recess this year.
On Friday, a federal judge in Seattle made a broad ruling that blocked major points of the executive order in response to a lawsuit filed by Washington and Minnesota.
The whole point of paying an executive all that money and giving her that fat stock option package is to take the pressure off of you and give you some leverage.
The whole point of Obama's executive order is that discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people is just as odious as racial and gender discrimination.
The starting point for any allegation of executive office cover-up, like the one surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, is always the same: What did he know and when did he know it?
After the CFO finished, Cook, at that point chief executive of Apple for all of five months, stood to offer his remarks.
