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Luke Hildyard writes for the Guardian, summarising the flawed justifications for huge executive pay packages debunked in our paper for the New Economics Foundation Two main arguments are put forward to justify the explosion in…

High Pay Centre Director Deborah Hargreaves writes for the Oxford University Said Business School on the reputational consequences for businesses awarding excessive pay packages The debate about the unwarranted levels of pay for senior executives…

Canadian foundation introduces certification for companies with a fair pay ratio between highest and lowest earners A new international wage standard used by companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies, opens today for business in Toronto.…

Management writer Simon Caulkin highlights some of the flaws and misconceptions associated with performance-related pay When Tony Blair remonstrated some years ago, ‘No company would consider managing without targets,’ he was nearly right. Whether organisations…

Blog by Luke Hildyard for Left Foot Forward asking why the UK is doing less to tackle executive pay than other major economies Last week the High Pay Centre published new research showing that the…

Luke Hildyard on a yet another pay increase for FTSE 100 CEOs The annual Manifest/MM&K executive director Total Remuneration survey was released this week, showing that take home pay for the average FTSE 100 CEO…

Deborah Hargreaves asks whether businesses are being run in the interests of wider society “Shareholder value” is the cloak of respectability donned by executives to cover many practices that can be ruinous to other participants…

Cliff Weight's slides on the MM&K Executive Remuneration Survey 2013 On Monday 10th June, MM&K and Manifest launched the 2013 Executive Directors' Remuneration Survey at the High Pay Centre. Here are Cliff Weight, Director at…

Sarah Wilson's slides on the Manifest Executive Remuneration Survey 2013 On Monday 10th June, MM&K and Manifest launched the 2013 Executive Directors' Remuneration Survey at the High Pay Centre. Here are Sarah Wilson's (Manifest) slides…

10% pay increase as FTSE bosses cash in on Quantitative Easing Think tank the High Pay Centre today condemned the latest increase in executive pay, showing that FTSE 100 Chief Executives took home an average…

Research finds that high pay results in overconfidence and gung ho speculation An academic paper by Michael Cooper (University of Utah), Huseyin Gulen (Purdue University) and Raghavendra Rau (University of Cambridge) produced some interesting findings…

Major FTSE 100 Company respond to HPC challenge at company AGM FTSE 100 company Capita today committed to publishing the pay ratio between their highest and lowest paid employees at their Annual General Meeting in…