Over the past five years, 11 CEOs have been rewarded with a total compensation of $865 million, while their companies lost a total of $640 billion in shareholder value. Yikes. This news comes to us from the folks at The Corporate Library, a corporate governance watchdog group. They've just released a study on executive incentive compensation practices and the gap between pay and performance. The 11 companies in question are: Download entire article in PDF format.
