The first volume in the Leeds School Series on Business & Society, this collection of lectures demonstrates the valuable results of a timely exchange of ideas regarding the nature of executive compensation. Includes discussions across academic disciplines, perspectives, and intellectual orientations on the oft-debated topic of executive compensation. Gathers for the first time a series of lectures delivered at the 2004 Japha Symposium at the University of Colorado. Provides the reader with insight into the fundamental problems from a social and ethical perspective, and proposes a myriad of possible solutions.