ESG Within Executive Incentives Resources

From Overwhelming to Opportunity

The companies that succeed will strike the right balance between motivating leaders with incentive plan goals and ensuring fairness amid growing investor scrutiny.

October 20, 2023 NACD Online

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Factors Affecting ESG Metric Selection

While there is building momentum to adopt ESG related incentive metrics, it is important to consider the company’s specific business and talent requirements before doing so.

June 29, 2022 Equilar C-Suite

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Simple Rules for Including ESG In Incentives

Beyond Materiality

There is general agreement that this means that the company should have the competencies and resources to make a material, positive impact on the ESG issue of concern.

October 7, 2021 QuickTakes

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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

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Building a New-Collar Workforce

The turbulent events of 2020 have heightened many American corporations’ sense of political and social responsibility. With the pandemic exacerbating income inequality and climate change still a long-term threat, investors and critics are calling on companies to care for all stakeholders, not just investors. Many boards are attending to their long-standing interests in environmental, social and governance issues more than ever before.

April 14, 2021 Directors & Boards

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Moving Cautiously on ESG Incentives

Since the Business Roundtable’s 2019 call for greater attention to all stakeholders, corporate boards have been elevating environmental, social, and governance issues in their discussions.

April 1, 2021

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Using Compensation to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

With rising calls for social reform in 2020, investors and the media are focusing attention on companies’ efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

March 17, 2021

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Look Beyond Incentive Pay to Spur Inclusion

By promoting diversity and inclusion, directors spur behavioral modification, not just D&I scorekeeping. They thereby lay the foundation for accelerated and permanent change.

March 16, 2021 NACD Directorship Magazine

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Diversity and Inclusion Incentives Across the F200

Over the fall of 2020, we collected data on ESG & incentives from the Fortune 200. We excerpted from that data a subset of companies that have included a Diversity and Inclusion metric in their incentive designs.

January 5, 2021

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