Compensation

ITT Educational OKs bonuses to keep managers in place

December 27, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc.’s management team will get special cash bonuses if they remain with the company until the end of June, ITT disclosed in a regulatory filing last week.
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Most not-for-profit execs modestly paid, survey saysRestricted Content

November 13, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlin
Local consultants Bryan Orander and Jim Morris conducted the survey this summer to fulfill what they see as a lack of hard data on executive pay in the local not-for-profit sector.
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Biglari's revised incentive package approved by shareholders

November 8, 2010
Anthony Schoettle
After criticizing an earlier pay proposal, 82 percent of Biglari Holdings' shareholders approved a scaled-back bonus agreement for their CEO.
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After disagreement, Lewis leaves WellPoint with $3.2M

October 27, 2010
J.K. Wall
Dijuana Lewis will get nearly $3.2 million on her way out the door at WellPoint Inc. after what sources described as a dispute with CEO Angela Braly over a change in duties.
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Biglari adjusts controversial pay proposal

October 1, 2010
Cory Schouten
The parent company of Steak n Shake restaurants has scaled back a controversial pay package for its CEO in hopes of securing shareholder approval of the plan at a rescheduled special meeting.
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Four Hoosiers among richest Americans; Irsay ascends

September 23, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is moving up the ranks of the richest Americans a year after making his way onto the Forbes 400 list of the nation’s wealthiest people.
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Steak n Shake parent postpones meeting amid pay uproar

August 10, 2010
Scott Olson
San Antonio-based Biglari Holdings Inc. said late Monday it will delay a planned Aug. 24 shareholder meeting to give the company time to address "misinformation" regarding its CEO's controversial pay package.
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Not-for-profit pay survey launched online

June 26, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Seeing a lack of timely, accurate information about pay and benefits at local not-for-profits, two consultants have launched an online compensation survey.
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Soft Landing: Pay slipped for most execs in 2009, but cuts weren't deep

May 22, 2010
Peter Schnitzler
Top executives at Indiana's public companies have largely been insulated from the economic crash. IBJ's review of executive pay found that, although 131 of the 238 executives listed in proxy statements the past two years saw annual compensation fall in 2009, only 10 experienced cuts of more than $1 million.
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Unorthodox pay package puts Biglari on defensiveRestricted Content

May 15, 2010
Greg Andrews
Sardar Biglari, chairman and CEO of Biglari Holdings Inc., the Texas-based parent of Steak n Shake, rolled out a hedge-fund-style compensation plan for himself late last month that could put staggering sums in his pocket.
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MARCUS: How much is too much when it comes to compensation?

April 17, 2010
Morton Marcus
This month, as you watched the gallant Butler University basketball team uphold the honor of the Hoosier state, did you wonder about the compensation of college coaches and their future NBA stars?
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Brightpoint cuts CEO's pay by almost 35 percent

April 5, 2010
Peter Schnitzler
Robert J. Laikin earned $2.2 million in 2009, nearly 35 percent less than in 2008. Several other members of his management team also took substantial pay cuts.
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Butler coach Stevens expected to get lucrative offers

April 3, 2010
Anthony Schoettle
Butler University basketball coach Brad Stevens has an annual base pay of $350,000 with another $37,851 in benefits and deferred compensation. Not bad for a 33-year-old. But it's no comparison to what big-time men's college basketball coaches make.
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Purdue signs Painter through 2016-17 season

April 2, 2010
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Purdue announced Friday that the new contract gives Matt Painter a $1.3 million base salary, plus up to $1 million of incentives for academic, athletic and attendance performance.
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ITT Educational awards top managers substantial raises

March 10, 2010
Peter Schnitzler
The Carmel-based for-profit educator paid CEO Kevin M. Modany $7.6 million in total compensation last year, a 63-percent increase over 2008. And the rest of his management team all enjoyed pay increases of 45 percent or more.
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Recession takes toll on university president pay

January 18, 2010
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
A survey released Monday by the Chronicle of Higher Education showed compensation packages of chief executives at public universities leveling off in 2008-2009, rising a relatively modest 2.3 percent. How did Indiana college presidents fare?
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Smulyan signs new contract to lead Emmis

December 21, 2009
Anthony Schoettle
Jeff Smulyan agrees to terms on a new three-year contract to lead Emmis. Signing and performance bonuses could lead to big pay raise.
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AIT shares profit with employees - again

December 21, 2009
AIT Laboratories said Monday morning it is awarding another $1 million in bonus money to employees, bringing their total take in profit sharing this year to an impressive $3 million.
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Indiana bank CEOs get bigger pay hike than peers

November 14, 2009
 IBJ Staff
For banks, the last two years have been among the most tumultuous in history. Financial institution CEOs across the country responded by trimming their raises in 2009. But in Indiana, bank chiefs didn’t follow form.
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Some U.S. charity executives shared the pain in 2008

October 3, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Some—but not all—not-for-profit executives took pay cuts in 2008, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual salary survey.
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WellPoint insiders sell stock at right time

September 12, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Take the money while it’s there. That’s what a handful of insiders at WellPoint Inc. decided in the past month as they sold off nearly 150,000 company shares for gains of more than $3 million.
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VIEWPOINT: Discuss CEO pay in the openRestricted Content

July 6, 2009
John Guy
While transparency is a stated goal of many corporations, deliberations regarding distribution of shareholder property to executives are not subject to light of day or to review. Instead, decision-making is camouflaged by thousands of words that appear substantial but disclose little.
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GUY: What price company leadership?Restricted Content

June 29, 2009
John Guy
The folks who control executive compensation are often executives themselves. Boards must realize that their self-dealing, self-benefiting ways are grossly out of line with the true value of one's contribution to a business and society.
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Half of state's public-company CEOs saw pay rise in 2008

June 22, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
For investors, 2008 was the worst year since the Great Depression. Even so, more than half of the state's public-company executives saw the value of their pay packages rise from 2007—despite the fact that only 10 of the companies posted a positive total return in 2008, and 46 companies shed more than one-third of their stock market value.
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Ice Miller still in merger talks with Louisville law firmRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
Scott Olson
The city's third-largest law firm is poised to tie the knot with Kentucky's Greenebaum Doll & McDonald. But differences in the way the firms compensate partners are taking longer than expected to sort out.
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