In 2007, Denver-based Qwest Communications agreed to allow the ­stepdaughter of CEO Edward ­Mueller access to the company’s jet so that she could continue high school in the San Francisco Bay Area.

When Nike CEO William Perez resigned in January 2006, after just a year on the job, the company spent $3.2 million to purchase his Portland home and another $580,000 to renovate it.

After Werner Enterprises founder Clarence Werner stepped down as CEO in 2007, the transportation company agreed to build a 24,000-square-foot hunting lodge on a 580-acre spread Werner owned in Nebraska. The company also agreed to pay the annual taxes on the property.

When Morgans Hotel Group hired Fred Kleisner as interim CEO, it agreed to pay a housing allowance of up to $30,000 a month.

Henry Frick, the No. 2 at Carnegie Steel in the 1880s, also owned a company that manufactured coke, an ingredient necessary for steelmaking. All of Carnegie’s coke contracts went to Frick.