Executive Pay

Efforts to repeal CEO-worker pay ratio disclosure continue, but the odds of success are growing longer.

The new Democratic Party ‘Better Deal’ agenda features a job-training proposal that demands less from CEOs than the training proposal Bill Clinton ran on a quarter-century ago.

The dominant answer since the 1970s: shareholders and shareholders alone. But our earliest thoughtful analysts of the corporate manager role had a quite different — and much more egalitarian — perspective.

America’s largest retailer spread the wealth around back in the 1950s and prospered. Today’s Sears is concentrating wealth — and crashing.