Coca-Cola

01 May 2014

Poll: Little Support for Buffett’s Abstention from Coca-Cola Vote

Thomas Piketty’s popular new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” has struck a chord with the public in part because of a growing disenchantment with the generous compensation packages lavished on corporate executives, so it was not without irony that last week 83% of Coca-Cola’sshareholders approved a controversial equity compensation plan for approximately 6,500 employees that had been widely panned as excessive.