In the past week there have been two major reports describing how to fix executive compensation. The first is from...
Archive for category: Executive Compensation
What Do You REALLY Know About Pay?
Jul 19,2016July 19, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Other Rewards, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, Sales Compensation, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Stock OptionsTags Base Salaries, Benefits & Perquisites, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, International Compensation, sales compensation, Social Media & Rewards, stock/equity compensation, surveys, total rewards
Before there were photographs, sailors would return from long trips and describe animals to artists who would then create “official”...
Evolving Equity Like It’s a Flying Machine
Jul 11,2016July 11, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Stock OptionsTags biplane, compensation, compensation philosophy, equity compensation, executive compensation, f35, flying machines, jet, mustang p54, pay, pay for performance, performance awards, rocket, RSUs, solar sail, stock options, stock/equity compensation, total rewards
Other professionals in HR, compensation and investing frequently ask why I am so passionate about changing the way companies use...
A Small Problem for Compensation Professionals
Jun 07,2016June 7, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags Board of Director Compensation, compensation, compensation philosophy, equity, ESPP, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, pay, pay for performance, rsu, stock options, stock/equity compensation, total rewards, worldatwork
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?
May 23,2016May 23, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags Base Salaries, cable, equity, executive compensation, executive pay, harvard, HBR, Incentives/Bonuses, P4P, pay for performance, Performance Management, stock options, stock/equity compensation, vermeulen
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
Apr 25,2016April 25, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Stock OptionsTags compensation, compensation philosophy, EPSC, executive compensation, executive pay, Frank Glasser, Institutional Shareholders, ISS, pay for performance, Regulations & Public Policy, stock/equity compensation
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?
Apr 13,2016April 13, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Communication, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Stock OptionsTags compensation, compensation communication, dilution, equity compensation, executive compensation, pay, pay for performance, perception, restrictions, rsu, stock options, stock/equity compensation, taxation, total rewards, valuation
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
Apr 05,2016April 5, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Stock OptionsTags compensation philosophy, equity compensation, executive compensation, lorax, pay for performance, stock options, stock options on the precipice, stock/equity compensation, total rewards
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!
Mar 15,2016March 15, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags amplitude, compensation philosophy, equity compensation, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, P4P, pay for performance, precipice, slicing pie, stock options, stock/equity compensation, total rewards, twitter, wall street journal, wealthfront
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)
Mar 03,2016March 3, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Stock OptionsTags compensation, compensation philosophy, equity compensation, executive compensation, pay, pay for performance, rsu, stock options on the precipice, stock/equity compensation, total rewards, values
Determining grant sizes or values is Part 4 and the next challenge in my ongoing series, “Stock Options on the...