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IN SEPTEMBER 2012 Marissa Mayer, newly installed as the CEO of Yahoo, an internet firm, and positively glowing with star power, met members of the company’s compensation committee. She told the committee that she was in discussions with a potential candidate to be her right-hand man, and wanted to get guidance on “compensation parameters”.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Neither rigged nor fair”
From the June 25th 2016 edition
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