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12.07.13

The Big Pay Debate: Can the Conservatives be the party of fair pay? – Conservative Party Conference

Tuesday 1 October 20136:30pm Arora Hotel18-24 Princess StreetManchester M1 4LY Executive pay continues to rise sharply while wages for everyone else have stagnated. How can we encourage good business performance and help employees feel engaged…

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10.07.13

Kittens are evil: heresies in public policy

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…

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08.07.13

The greed of the executives and their cosiness to government enables high pay culture

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…

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08.07.13

A further unearned and disproportionate increase in the size of executive pay packets

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…

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08.07.13

Does the shareholder owned company have a future?

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…

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11.06.13

Event Slides: MM&K Survey Launch

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…

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11.06.13

Event Slides: Manifest Survey Launch

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…

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Past Event

11.06.13

PAY RATIOS EVENT POSTPONED

Tuesday 9 July 2013 5:30pm Room 3.1, Queen Mary's University of London, 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3JB Unfortunately our report on pay ratios and the launch event on the 9th of July have…

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10.06.13

High Pay Centre condemns latest executive pay increase

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…

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28.05.13

Cambridge study shows that excessive CEO pay packages harm company performance

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…

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Publications

28.05.13

Leading or Lagging: where does the UK stand in the international debate about top pay?

New High Pay Centre report analysing the policy responses to excessive pay in different economies UK lagging rivals in efforts to tackle executive pay New analysis published by the High Pay Centre shows that the…

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14.05.13

Capita promise to publish pay ratio between highest and lowest earners

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…

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Past Event

02.05.13

Executive Directors’ Remuneration

Monday 10 June 20135:00pm The High Pay Centre32-36 Loman StreetLondon SE1 0EH The 2013 Executive Directors Total Remuneration Survey, produced jointly by MM&K and Manifest, is recognised as the authoritative guide to pay of Executive…

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30.04.13

Life in the boardroom: what do chairmen and non-executive directors think?

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,…

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30.04.13

Event Slides: Chairman and Non-Executive Directors’ Remuneration

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…

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30.04.13

Infographics: Chairmen and Non-Executive Directors’ Remuneration

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…

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17.04.13

Next boss gives his bonus to staff

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…

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15.04.13

No more than we deserve: The Rights and Wrongs of Executive Pay (Event)

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…

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