ECONOMIC PRESSURE

摘要

It doesn't take a Harvard business degree to figure out that the key to financial prosperity is to profit at others' expense. Take big oil, for example. When the price of gas shot through the roof in 2004, Exxon gave its CEO a $38 million bonus. How about satellite radio? Now that we're paying to hear tunes that used to be free, XM's president and CEO made nearly $27 million last year. The high cost and crappy quality of healthcare got you down? The CEO of a prominent HMO received a $32 million paycheck in 2005.