The Real Cost of Mismanaged Incentives: Wells Fargo

Well, so much for the warm-hearted caffeinated, pick-me-up from the Comp Café. Today is a steaming jolt of quadruple espresso...

A Small Problem for Compensation Professionals

This is not the article I intended to post today. I had something else ready to go, but realized this...

Why Equity and Not Just a Bigger Salary?

This February, the Harvard Business Review published Stop Paying Executives for Performance” by Dan Cable and Freek Vermeulen. The basis...

UPDATE ISS Equity Plan Scorecard EPSC 2.0

Have you ever played a card game with 5-year olds? Before you start, they explain the game in vague details...

What’s Equity Really Worth?

We all know that equity compensation is the driver behind the astronomic growth in executive compensation. We all know that...

The Lorax Explains Equity Compensation

At the narrow end of an IPO spike where the stock market slows and the stock options lose value and...

Equity Compensation: I Have the Cure You Seek!

Is your equity program on the fritz? Are your stock options in the dump? Could your RSUs use a bit...

How to Determine Equity Grant Sizes (it’s probably not what you think)

Determining grant sizes or values is Part 4 and the next challenge in my ongoing series, “Stock Options on the...

11 Reasons Your Equity Compensation Survey Data is Wrong

Part 3 of my ongoing “Stock Options on the Precipice” series. How much equity should I give (or get)? It’s...