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Why Pay-Driven Performance Doesn’t Work

Does pay drive and motivate specific performance outcomes? Or is the goal to align payouts with results, ensuring that leaders are rewarded for performance outcomes?

July 8, 2024 NACD Online
Human Capital ManagementExecutive & Director Pay Design
Articles

Do You Need a Chief Human Resources Officer on Your Board?

Directors with human capital expertise can be invaluable at a time when the “war for talent” is raging.

August 4, 2023 Directors & Boards
Human Capital Management
Articles

Integration of ESG into Compensation

Third article of a three-part series focused on how companies can implement the foundational steps of board-level ESG oversight.

May 3, 2022
Human Capital Management
Articles

Focusing the Company Around ESG Priorities

Within the tenure of the current executive team, certain actions can be incentivized so that individual leaders do their part to keep the organization on track.

April 4, 2022 Corporate Board Member
Human Capital Management
Articles

Effectively Identifying Top ESG Priorities

Ceres and the Semler Brossy have teamed up to provide guidance to companies that have begun to integrate ESG issues into their corporate strategies and may be considering ESG in incentives.

February 4, 2022
Human Capital Management
Articles

Take ESG Compensation Metrics to the Next Level

Spurred in part by the pandemic and the social protests of the past year, shareholders are calling for greater disclosure and commitment to ESG matters, and some are explicitly asking companies to include at least one material, measurable ESG metric in their executive pay plans.

October 4, 2021 NACD Directorship Magazine
Human Capital Management
Articles

How to Translate ESG Imperatives into Executive Compensation

By investing in these areas even without an immediate commercial payoff, companies can bolster their long-term positions with both the stock market and society. 

September 22, 2021
Human Capital Management
Articles

The Expanding Role of ESG in Executive Pay

Environmental, social, and governance concerns continue amid heightened scrutiny of corporate behavior through the COVID-19 pandemic and protests over racism and police brutality. It's time to take the next step by incorporating ESG metrics into compensation plans.

August 1, 2020 NACD Directorship Magazine
Human Capital Management
Articles

Emerging Trends in ESG and Incentives

View the Directors & Boards webinar, featuring Kathryn Neel and John Borneman.

June 25, 2020
Human Capital Management
Articles

Bringing Purpose Into Pay Programs

Examining non-financial metrics in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

June 23, 2020 Corporate Board Member
Human Capital Management
Articles

The Big Picture for Compensation in a Pandemic

Three foundational principles for compensation committees

June 8, 2020 NACD Directorship Magazine
Emerging Issues
Articles

Impact of Covid-19 on Executive and Director Compensation

Russell 3000

Since early March, Semler Brossy has been tracking Russell 3000 executive and director pay actions announced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 4, 2020
Emerging Issues
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