Graef Crystal
Appearance
Graef "Bud" S. Crystal was an expert on executive compensation, often cited as a critic of excessive packages. [1] [2] [3] He started work as an executive compensation consultant in 1959.[1] He worked for twenty years at the consulting firm Towers Perrin, and also taught at the Haas School of Business.[2] He advised on pay at Coca-Cola Company and American Express. [4] He authored books on executive compensation as both an advisor and critic. He wrote a column on Bloomberg, and subsequently published on his own website. [5]
Selected works
[edit]- Compensating U.S. Executives Abroad (1972)
- Executive Compensation: Money, Motivation, and Imagination (1978)
- Financial Motivation For Executives (1978)
- Questions and Answers on Executive Compensation: How to Get What You're Worth (1984)
- In Search of Excess: The Overcompensation of American Executives (1991)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Solman, Paul (2 December 2002). "Executive Excess". The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Public Broadcasting Service. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ a b Kane, Margaret (23 April 2002). "Laughing All the Way to the Bank". CNet News. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ Hubert B. Herring (17 August 2003). "At the Top, Pay and Performance Are Often Far Apart". New York Times. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ Jessica Silver-Greenberg; Alexis Leondis (6 May 2010). "CBS Overpaid Moonves $28 Million, Says Study of CEO Pay". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ O'Brien, Chris (24 September 2008). "Graef Crystal: Bailout and executive pay limits are both bad ideas". SiliconBeat. San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 26 August 2010. [dead link]