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ISS’s New Approach to Equity is Better and Worse
Oct 20,2014October 20, 2014
Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) is one the most powerful voices in how companies and their investors view executive compensation. In...
Want Results? Prove it!
Sep 30,2014September 30, 2014
Most compensation professionals I know are very earnest in their desire to pay people as well as possible. They attend...
Do compensation consultants help price CEO compensation more accurately or worsen it?
Sep 01,2014September 1, 2014
This is a great question. The truth is the compensation consultants do some of both. The form of this question seems...
Executive Compensation: How do companies determine their upper-management pay structure?
Sep 01,2014September 1, 2014
Executive pay structure involves determine that compensation elements (tools) to be used and the levels or amounts for each. The...
Tipping Points – 5 for Pay Professionals
Aug 25,2014August 25, 2014
By adminIn Articles, Career Advancement, Compensation Philosophy, Compensation Plan Design, Compensation Planning, Culture, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Recognition, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock Options
“The moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.1” This is how Malcolm Gladwell describes the tipping point. It...
Does ISS Understand Your Equity Compensation?
Aug 14,2014August 14, 2014
A common complaint about ISS is that they often evaluate equity compensation programs without fully understanding them. Today ISS announced...
Dueling Data – Stock Options or Performance Units?
Aug 12,2014August 12, 2014
My trusty Google Alerts continue to update me on what is happening in the world of Compensation. Because of this...
How Relative TSR is a Bit Like Cough Medicine – a bedtime story for executive compensation professionals.
Jun 27,2014June 27, 2014
Once upon a time in a land pretty darned close to where you live… Little ExecComp wasn’t feeling well. Whatever...
You Get 2 Shares and You Get 4 Shares and So on and So on…
Jun 18,2014June 18, 2014
Geometric progression of pay from one pay grade or level to the next sounds pretty crazy. But, while doing research...