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Getting Back to the Long Term

The pandemic and other developments have changed the landscape for corporate behavior and strategy. Executive compensation must adapt accordingly for companies to capture fresh opportunities and overcome new challenges.

August 12, 2021 NACD/Directorship
Executive & Director Pay Design
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The Time Is Right to Assess Pay Fundamentals​

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the key tenets of executive compensation, especially the performance-based incentives that comprise the majority of executive pay.

November 10, 2020 NACD/Directorship
Executive & Director Pay Design
Articles

Designing and Administering Executive and Director Compensation

Important considerations in planning for 2019 year-end pay decisions and 2020 pay plan design and proxy disclosures.

December 20, 2019
Resilience
Articles

What to Expect From Your Pay Consultant

Consultants don't provide their most valuable service in the form of answers to tough questions . They do so by pos- ing the tough questions in the first place.

July 19, 2018 NACD/Directorship
Executive & Director Pay Design
Articles

Rewarding Strategic Investment

For boards, encouraging investment to fulfill future strategy when short-term forces push executives in the opposite direction is a prevalent problem.

February 13, 2018 NACD/Directorship
Executive & Director Pay Design
Articles

Retention Grants for C-Suiters

Directors should ascertain a top executive's flight risk and whether money can that leader.

July 27, 2017 Workspan
Executive & Director Pay Design
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Considerations in Issuing Retention Grants

As useful as such grants can be in some situations, they should be approached with skepticism.

March 28, 2017 Directors & Boards
Executive & Director Pay Design
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Too Much Short-Termism

If you take large-company executive pay packages at face value, they typically offer a strong incentive for superior, long-term performance.

July 11, 2016
Executive & Director Pay Design
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Notes From the Field: Risk May Not Be Inherent in Pay Designs

One would be hard-pressed not to be slack-jawed over the revelation of fraud at Volkswagen in late 2015. The audacious scale of the perpetration" 11 million cars, over 8 years, in 36 countries" was hard to fathom. Bad acting on both this and a lesser scale drives observers of corporate governance to reflexively ask, "What's going on at the top?"

June 9, 2016 Ethisphere Magazine
Executive & Director Pay Design
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Executive Compensation—What Matters Most to Activists?

Executive compensation is a perpetual hot-button topic and one that activist investors frequently use to court shareholder support for their proposals. In a recent BoardVision video, Semler Brossy managing directors Roger Brossy and Blair Jones talk with Ken Bertsch, partner at CamberView Partners, about the following questions.

September 15, 2015 NACD BoardTalk
Executive & Director Pay Design
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Activists at the Gate of Executive Pay

Why activists are concerned with executive pay and what boards and their compensation committees should be doing now to respond to these concerns.

July 30, 2015 Directors & Boards
Shareholder Voting
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Executive Pay & Activism: NACD BoardVision 361º

Executive compensation is a perpetual hot-button topic" and one that activists frequently use to court shareholders. Roger Brossy, managing director of Semler Brossy, talks with Blair Jones, managing director of Semler Brossy, and Ken Bertsch, partner at CamberView Partners, about strategies directors can use to effectively communicate the principles that support the company's pay practices. Watch the video now.

June 17, 2015 NACD/Directorship
Executive & Director Pay Design
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Exec Stocks: Selling the Right Way

No director wants to see his or her company cited in the newspaper for executivepay transgressions. Especially not on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. And especially when the reporter suggests stock sales from an executive-pay plan hurt shareholders. But that's what happened on Nov. 27, in what might be called the Thanksgiving

December 18, 2012 NACD/Directorship
ESG & Human Capital Management
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