As employers struggle to fill open positions in their companies during The Great Resignation, they find themselves competing with other employers to pay more for workers they want to keep or attract, often with no real sense of how to do this in a reasonably efficient...
I read this quote this morning from Fed Chair Bernanke’s testimony yesterday: “Bernanke confirmed that Fed investigators have found that the biggest banks have made few changes in the compensation plans that many argue were part of the recent financial...
This weblog has devoted space more than once to the sometimes ridiculous executive pay policies pursued by many Wall Street firms, notably including AIG and Merrill Lynch. I felt then and continue to feel now that many financial firms couldn't spell "pay for...
Last summer the Wall Street Journal ran an article reporting that US Airways had achieved the best on-time performance of all major airlines, after being the worst performer the previous year. As I re-read this item while researching my next book, a paragraph caught...