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The bad side of incentive based executive compensation

12/31/2008

Executive pay and bonuses are paid based on incentives to produce good performance. But the parameters that measure performance such as share price can be manipulated resulting in a perverse sytem that incentivizes bad decisions costly to the company even while executives are earning large or grossly disproportionate pay and bonuses. This happened at Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and other financial firms that collapsed or reached the brink of collapse.

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