# Graef Crystal

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'''Graef "Bud" S. Crystal''' was an expert on [executive compensation](/source/executive_compensation), often cited as a critic of excessive packages.
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 |title        = Executive Excess
 |first        = Paul
 |last         = Solman
 |date         = 2 December 2002
 |work         = [The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer](/source/The_NewsHour_with_Jim_Lehrer)
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| url         = http://news.cnet.com/Laughing-all-the-way-to-the-bank/2008-1082_3-888996.html
| title       = Laughing All the Way to the Bank
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| last        = Kane
| date        = 23 April 2002
| publisher   = [CNet News](/source/CNet_News)
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| url         = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/business/bulletin-board-at-the-top-pay-and-performance-are-often-far-apart.html
| title       = At the Top, Pay and Performance Are Often Far Apart
| author       = Hubert B. Herring
| date        = 17 August 2003
| work   = [New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)
| access-date  = 26 August 2010
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He started work as an executive compensation consultant in 1959.<ref name=PBS/>  He worked for twenty years at the consulting firm [Towers Perrin](/source/Towers_Perrin), and also taught at the [Haas School of Business](/source/Haas_School_of_Business).<ref name=CNet/>  He advised on pay at [Coca-Cola Company](/source/Coca-Cola_Company) and [American Express](/source/American_Express).
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| url         = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-06/cbs-overpaid-leslie-moonves-28-million-in-study-of-executive-compensation.html
| title       = CBS Overpaid Moonves $28 Million, Says Study of CEO Pay
| author1       = Jessica Silver-Greenberg
| author2 = Alexis Leondis
| date        = 6 May 2010
| publisher   = [Bloomberg.com](/source/Bloomberg.com)
| access-date  = 26 August 2010
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He authored books on executive compensation as both an advisor and critic.  He wrote a column on [Bloomberg](/source/Bloomberg_L.P.), and subsequently published on his own website.
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| url         = http://www.siliconbeat.com/2008/09/24/graef-crystal-bailout-and-executive-pay-limits-are-both-bad-ideas/2008-1082_3-888996.html
| title       = Graef Crystal: Bailout and executive pay limits are both bad ideas
| first       = Chris 
| last        = O'Brien
| date        = 24 September 2008
| work        = SiliconBeat
| publisher   = [San Jose Mercury News](/source/San_Jose_Mercury_News)
| access-date  = 26 August 2010
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==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==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100831173143/http://graefcrystal.com/ The Crystal Report on Executive Compensation]

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