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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…

How do you make a board effective and should chairmen be paid more? Discussion on boardroom dynamics at the High Pay Centre event on April 29 Are chairmen underpaid compared to chief executives? Cliff Weight,…

Cliff Weight and Ken Brotherston's slides from the event On Monday 29th April, Cliff Weight, Ken Brotherston, Theresa Wallis and Deborah Hargreaves came together to comment onthe findings of the recent Directorbank survey of chairman…

Infographics created for the event Chairmen and Non-Executive Director's Remuneration Infographics highlighting some of the key findings of the MM&K and Directorbank survey into Chairmen and Non-Executive Directors' Remuneration, available to download below. Infographics provided…

While spreading £2.4 million among employees is a welcome move, gestures like this will not rein in runaway executive pay, writes Deborah Hargreaves in the Guardian Lord Wolfson’s largesse in spreading his £2.4m bonus among…

Photographs now online Thank you to all those who came and contributed to our event 'The Rights and Wrongs of Executive Pay'. The morning was a huge success and some of the photgraphs have now…

Full text of Simon Walker's speech (15/04/13) "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, Secretary of State, and thank you all for joining us here at the Institute of Directors for this crucial discussion. For those of…

Full text of Vince Cable's speech (15/04/13) "The factors determining wages and the value of labour represent one of the oldest controversies in economic thinking.  The current debates around what constitutes a living or subsistence…