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  CEO Pay Moves With Corporate Results

  Chief executives increasingly are being paid based on their companies' financial results and share prices, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

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  A Few Disconnects in CEO Pay

  Some CEOs delivered more bang for the buck, while others were well rewarded despite poor results.

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  The Highest-Paid CEOs

  Apple's Tim Cook, Oracles's Larry Ellison and CBS's Les Moonves top the Journal's ranking of highest-paid chief executives.

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  How the Survey Was Completed

  For the fifth year The Wall Street Journal has partnered with Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, on its annual survey of CEO Compensation.

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  Australia Adjusts to Its New Energy Role

  Woodside Petroleum CEO Peter Coleman is at the heart of a seismic shift in global energy markets.

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  For Gupta Trial, Tension and Tips

  Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta say he was estranged from convicted hedge-fund mogul Raj Rajaratnam at the time of some alleged tips. Prosecutors say the friendship broke down much later.

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  Chesapeake Cuts Pay, Travel for Board

  Chesapeake Energy said board members will take a 20% pay cut and no longer have personal use of company aircraft, the latest move by the embattled natural-gas company to placate critics.

  • Heard: A Directors' Cut at Chesapeake

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  Key Void at Top for J.P. Morgan

  J.P. Morgan Chase didn't have a treasurer in place during a critical time when the bank's Chief Investment Office placed trades that led to more than $2 billion in losses.

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  How Women Can Get Ahead: Advice From Female CEOs

  Our recounting of how Jack Welch clashed with a group of female executives over how to advance to the top of corporate America touched a raw nerve. So we asked female CEOs for their opinion on the topic.

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  Pension Fund Targets Chesapeake Directors

  The custodian of a group of New York City pension funds is calling on Chesapeake Energy shareholders to vote against two board members, saying they failed to check the CEO's controversial financial activies.

  • Funds Shed Chesapeake Shares

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  Investor Wins Proxy Vote at Canadian Pacific

  Canadian Pacific investor Bill Ackman won a proxy vote to approve his slate of directors and unseat the railroad's CEO. A member of the Ackman slate was appointed interim chief.

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  3M Begins Untangling 'Hairballs'

  3M, which used to have a convoluted production process for some products, is trying to untangle these "hairballs" to cut costs.

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  Wrangling Facebook's Rich

  As Facebook's IPO mints new millionaires, the social-networking company will need to persuade employees that they are as critical to the firm as a public company as they were when it was a start-up.

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  • Photos: Inside Facebook's New Campus
  • Facebook's New R&D Machine
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  Pay Clawbacks Raise Knotty Issues

  J.P. Morgan boss James Dimon says the bank may pursue pay clawbacks for those employees responsible for more than $2 billion in trading losses. But Wall Street's track record is thin in this area.

  • Funds Bet on J.P. Morgan Before Loss

• Big Incentives Can Hinder, Rather Than Help

  Financial incentives can spur us to success, but only up to a point, a new study says. Also, chatty women may be snubbed in the workplace.

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  Yahoo CEO's Downfall

  How the error in former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's bio led to his resignation.

  • Yahoo Chairman Wants Interim CEO to Be Permanent CEO
  • Ex-Yahoo Chief Told Board He Has Cancer
  • Video: New Yahoo CEO Is Just the First Step

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  Best Buy Chairman to Resign After Probe

  Best Buy's founder, Richard Schulze, will step down as chairman after an internal probe found that he didn't alert the board that CEO Dunn was allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a female employee.

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  Behind the Scenes at Dewey

  Dewey partners in the office of the chairman explain why the firm is unable to survive and how they have been working with lenders in recent weeks.

  • Distressed-Debt Investors Circling
  • Interactive: Who Has Left, and for Where
  • Timeline: Key Events for Dewey

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  Icahn to Reveal Chesapeake Stake

  Chesapeake Energy is expecting activist investor Carl Icahn to disclose soon that he has taken a significant stake in the embattled natural-gas company.

  • For Natural Gas, End to Wishful Thinking

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  Pressure Builds on Dimon

  J.P. Morgan's Dimon faced increasing pressure after the trading blunder that cost the bank over $2 billion. Three high-ranking executives are expected to leave.

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  • Reputation Is Staff Concern
  • Heard: Wall Street Wails
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  LightSquared Nears Bankruptcy

  Hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone's LightSquared venture is preparing for a potential bankruptcy-protection filing, as negotiations with lenders falter.

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  Yahoo Interim CEO Is Ad World Veteran

  Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, forged strong alliances with executives at Madison Avenue agencies that represent the biggest ad spenders, setting him apart from his predecessors, who had no ad experience.

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  Brooks Details Cameron Ties

  Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit, described a close relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron in testimony to a U.K. media inquiry.

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  • Video: Brooks at U.K. Ethics Inquiry
  • Rebekah Brooks's Witness Statement

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  Allstate's 'Say on Pay' Draws Some Dissenters

  Unions and pension funds that hold about 2.6 million shares of Allstate will vote against the company's "say-on-pay" provision for the second straight year after Chief Executive Tom Wilson's compensation rose 20% in 2011.

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  U.S. vs. Gupta: The Wiretaps

  The most crucial development in the insider-trading trial of former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta is likely to occur before it even begins: the admissibility of three key wiretaps.

  • Audio: Excerpts of the Phone Call
  • News Hub: Trial May Hinge on Wiretaps

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  Hitachi President Prods Turnaround

  While other Japanese electronics firms continue to suffer losses, Hitachi—Japan's largest electronics manufacturer—has posted a second year of record profits.

  • Video: The Future of Japan's Electronics Industry
  • JRT: Hitachi's New Management Style on Display

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  Wall Street's Go-To Guy Trips Up

  James Dimon, one of the nation's most successful and outspoken bank executives, was handed a piece of humble pie as the bank revealed a $2 billion trading loss on bad bets by one of its units.

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  Morgan Stanley Bailed On Firm

  Morgan Stanley asked the hedge fund firm being closed down by the securities firm's former co-president, Zoe Cruz, for its money back.

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  CEOs Press Congress on Debt

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  AOL Outlines Peace Offering

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  Coffee Mogul Defends Loans

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  Third Point Presses Yahoo for New CEO

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  Yahoo Director to Exit in Probe

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  Aviva CEO Leaves Amid Revolt

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  Demotions Rock Coffee Firm

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  RIM Fills Two Executive Spots

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  Boeing CEO Criticizes Washington

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  Freddie Mac Chooses CEO

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  Yahoo Probes CEO's Hiring

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  The Many Hats of Aubrey McClendon

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  Practicing Business

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  Confidentiality in the Spotlight

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  Sprint Chief Cuts Pay After Shareholder Criticism

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  Taking a Flier on Philippines Airlines

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  Project for Growth Amid the Downturn

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  Mogul Released From Prison

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  Walter Kwok Arrested Amid Probe

• The Other Facebook Founder

• Samsung Seeks Outside Talent

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  YouTube Channel Keeps Lid on Wages

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  Dewey Loses a Top M&A Lawyer

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  Yahoo Cites 'Error' in CEO Record

• Chesapeake CEO Apologizes for 'Distractions'

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  Hawker Nearing Chapter 11

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  A First Test for BlackBerry

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  Taking Stock at Sears

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  Fresh Raids Target Illegal Hiring