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It’s only natural for boards to worry about retention in CEO transitions, whether hiring from inside or outside. When making retention award decisions, boards should consider the following.

Non-tech companies often need help when hiring and keeping tech-savvy talent. Semler Brossy’s leadership group recently discussed what strategies non-tech companies could use to build their tech organization.

Boards have a growing interest in special equity awards to fend off recruiters and partially compensate executives for target pay that was not fully realized. Are special awards a good solution?

As with other operational or strategic metrics, adding ESG metrics to incentive plans can be a signal of importance and a sign of commitment.

For companies that are early in their ESG and HCM journey and considering a link to incentives, a scorecard may be a good starting point to help address some of the issues that come along with setting ESG and HCM goals.

Many companies are facing significant challenges developing and implementing compensation programs for 2023 owing to market volatility and continued macroeconomic uncertainty. Retaining your best talent may require adjusting for market volatility.

Economic headwinds and volatile markets have significantly affected fiscal year 2022 (FY22) incentive plan outcomes in the retail sector. This uncertainty has led retailers to evaluate both minor adjustments to and wholesale redesigns of FY23 incentive plans.  

The most critical choice the board makes is selecting the CEO. All boards have strategies that the current management team has developed. A different standpoint on strategy, in turn, may require a different kind of leader. 

We recommend boards and directors ask these questions to help understand their role in process oversight, emergency planning, transition dynamics, and more.

Private companies and private equity- or venture capital-backed pre-initial public offering (IPO) companies fall at one end of the governance and compensation spectrum.

We answered several common questions that have arisen as companies prepare for the Pay vs. Performance Disclosure (PvP) requirements.

As companies finish the 2022 compensation season and prepare for 2023, we highlight top-of-mind topics for compensation committee members, questions to ask, and related resources.

We have observed several different approaches to manage "burn rates" and preserve share authorizations.