In the wake of Marissa Mayer’s takeover of Yahoo, Bethany McLean asks whether she is its savior or its next big problem.
Sun, Mengqi
When Whitman rejoined HP in 2011, the company’s board established an initial salary of $1 a year. For 2014, the board decided it was time to raise the salary portion of her pay package to make it consistent with her peers at similar technology companies. Her base salary increased to $...
Mayer’s salary remained unchanged at $1 million, but her stock awards ballooned from $8.3 million to $11.8 million, her option awards similarly rose from $13.8 million to $28.2 million, while her non-equity incentive plan compensation decreased slightly from $1.7 million to $1.1 million and ...