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Fresh Carrots at The Children’s Place…

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

It may be winter in much of the United States, but recently one executive at The Children’s Place (PLCE) received a bumper crop of reasons to stay with the company for another 14 months.
The “carrots” in question come in the form of impressive “special bonuses” going to Susan J. Riley, the Company’s Vice President, Finance [...]

Leaving Microsoft with a nice cushion…

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

When Microsoft (MSFT) announced on Nov. 24 that CFO Chris Liddell would be leaving the company by the end of the year, the release said that Liddell was “looking at a number of opportunities that will expand his career beyond being a CFO”. About a month later, we learned that Liddell would in fact continue [...]

CBS’ last CFO still hanging around…

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Back in June, CBS (CBS) announced that its CFO, Fred Reynolds, planned to retire in mid-August. That same day, the company announced that Joseph Ianniello would be taking over as CFO on July 20.
Now Ianniello was no novice. He had been with CBS or Viacom (VIA) for the past 12 years and had been deputy [...]

On Nell Minow and Chesapeake…

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Yesterday, I finally got a copy of the current issue of the New Yorker with the profile of Nell Minow (only the abstract is available online for non-subscribers). As footnoted regulars know, I’ve long been a fan of Nell and last year after Barack Obama won the election, strongly suggested that she would be a [...]

Taxpayer funded signing bonus at Freddie Mac?

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Last we checked, Freddie Mac (FRE) was still operating under a conservatorship, having received over $51 billion in taxpayer money. And, we seem to recall lots of chest-beating last year about sharply lower salaries and fewer perks for the new group of top executives charged with setting Freddie (and Fannie Mae) back on the path [...]