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- <text id=90TT0942>
- <title>
- Apr. 16, 1990: Business Notes:Automobiles
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 16, 1990 Colossal Colliders:Smash!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- AUTOMOBILES
- The Boss Says Buy
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Having seen their bonuses evaporate because of poor profits,
- and up to 10% of their salaries escrowed pending the success
- of a cost-cutting program, Chrysler's top 100 executives are
- now being formally "encouraged" by Chairman Lee Iacocca to buy
- the company's weak stock. The idea is to coax managers to
- increase their stake in the company's performance.
- </p>
- <p> In an industry legendary for lack of management
- accountability, Chrysler has been making strong moves to tie
- executive compensation directly to the company's fortunes.
- Iacocca is pressing top execs to buy stock equivalent in value
- to their annual salaries. "I want them to feel exposed," he
- says. "I want them to put pressure on the people to deliver,
- to get earnings up, to reduce costs." Ironically, the chairman
- himself sold 95,339 of his 287,205 shares of Chrysler stock
- last year. That leaves him with more than $3 million in stock--twice his annual salary.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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