Graef "Bud" S. Crystal was an expert on

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, often cited as a critic of excessive packages. He started work as an executive compensation consultant in 1959. He worked for twenty years at the consulting firm

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, and also taught at the

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. He advised on pay at

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and

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. He authored books on executive compensation as both an advisor and critic. He wrote a column on

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, and subsequently published on his own website.

Selected works

*''Compensating U.S. Executives Abroad'' (1972) *''Executive Compensation: Money, Motivation, and Imagination'' (1978) *''Financial Motivation For Executives'' (1978) *''Questions and Answers on Executive Compensation: How to Get What You're Worth'' (1984) *''In Search of Excess: The Overcompensation of American Executives'' (1991)

References

External links

The Crystal Report on Executive Compensation
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