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Monsanto?

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Remember when those computer companies used to ship out their brand new products to the stores- without having secured the sales?  Or, claimed to have a product (hardware or software) to enter the market in days to kill competitor entries?  (IBM did this to Osborne and Control Data; Microsoft was adjudicated in a court case headed by Stanley Sporkin [who also dealt with the Home Intensive Care/Health and Human Services (HHS) spat a few years later.)   Or, the auto companies who delivered vehicles to their dealers- even though no one had ordered them

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CEO Compensation and Corporate Performance

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I have already discussed the issues with inflated CEO compensation. One primary cause driving compensation upward is that many firms employ a technique that insures that he (it is typically a he) gets salary increases regardless of the performance at the firm. I have also discussed the problem that executives are paid ridiculous multiples (not 10 to 50, but 250 to 500 times) of the average pay at their firms.

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