The omnipotent corporate chief executive emerged in the ’90s as a popular economic superhero, rivaling the high-tech nerd as creator of the economic boom. But that came to a crashing finale with misdeeds at Enron and dozens of other high-profile businesses—when a mix of executive greed, lawbreaking and deregulation built up then burst the stock market bubble. In the angry aftermath,… return to article
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Reader Comments (3)Page 1 of 1 pagesHard to imagine that you made no mention of the building trades and their shareholder activism. With 290 proposals at corporations this year, they are the main players in the field and have been for years. Their ommission makes renders this story just another puff piece.
Posted by Bill Arndt on Apr 15, 2004 at 6:43 PM Well, after fiascos like WorldCom and Enron (where everybody but the CEO got screwed), it is inevitable that the day of “SuperCEO” is coming to it’s end. Chief Executive Officers should never made more than 4x what the lowest ranking worker makes.
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