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Ken Feinberg is a close talker. Feinberg, a lawyer who in June was named the Treasury Department's special master for executive compensation, starts his sentences about 18 inches from your face and, with a thick Boston accent, leans in to make his point.
It's an unusual trait for a guy who has to deliver the type of news that most of us would prefer to dispense from across the room or, better yet, by e-mail from a do-not-reply address. On Oct. 22, he told 136 top executives of seven...
That's just the start. Feinberg will oversee the pay at the firms until each has repaid the government - or until he quits, and he has no plans to do so anytime soon. Having established a set of principles on which to base compensation for these execs, Feinberg says it...
Cutting the Check In the end, he made more changes to the way executives get paid than to how much. That has disappointed some critics. Feinberg ended up boosting many of the executives' base salaries from last year's, though not as much as the firms requested. Total compensation dropped...
Many people have praised him for his emphasis on long-term compensation. But a number of pay consultants say Feinberg might have gone too far in curbing year-end bonuses. "It is fair to say that some of the pay schemes promoted bad behavior and led to excessive risk, but...