Excessive compensation for corporate executives has been a regular news story for more than a decade. Fortune magazine's cover story on June15,2001,was titled "Inside the Great CEO pay Heist." This well-respected business magazine detailed how many top corporate executives now receive "gargantuan pay packages unlike any seen before." In the world of Fortune's heading,"Executive compensation has become highway robbery-we all know that." This story documented a phenomenon that has been growing significantly in the 1990s.