CDW Computer Centers Incorporated

Chicago-area stocks have not gotten off to a particularly good start in 2003. As market benchmarks look to break the first three-year losing streak since World War II, the biggest local companies endured a rocky first quarter, with a few, mostly limited,...

Last year, Timothy Callahan got it coming and going. In April, he resigned as chief executive of Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, receiving "separation pay" of $1.65 million, roughly equal to a year's salary and bonus, plus accelerated...

In a recent speech to corporate directors in Chicago, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker asked: "How did we get compensation to the truly grotesque levels to which I think it has risen?" He answered: "What was going on was our good friend,...

Major shippers continued working Friday to restore expedited delivery services, while logistics firms grappled with backlogs from the nation's unprecedented midweek air shutdown. The grounding of planes carrying everything from fresh flowers and computer...

It's good to have options. Defying recession, the worst performance by corporate earnings since the Depression and another down year in the U.S. stock market, the chief executives at Chicago's largest companies received a double-digit raise overall...

When chief executives talk about compensation, they frequently complain that critics fail to take into account the marketplace--the "war for talent" within industries and the benchmarks set by their peers. To try to assess how compensation for Chicago-...