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Over the past 20 years, stock options have gone from being far and away the most popular equity vehicle to being viewed unfavorably by many.

Board diversity is claiming a wider share of the spotlight in boardrooms. BlackRock, Vanguard, and many of the largest asset managers have shifted their focus from addressing proxy access and board classification issues to developing voting guidelines on certain broader environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues" including board diversity.

A financial services firm with revenues in excess of $1 billion utilized a price-vested options approach with rigorous goals to align with the company's high-growth strategy.

The famous line from the movie "Jerry Maguire" rarely rings true today. Based on years of consulting to hundreds of companies, Semler Brossy has concluded that a company's ability to get and top talent takes far more than money.

After years of falling out of favor — due to both the financial crisis and proxy advisers considering them non-performance based — companies are once again considering the use of stock options to motivate and reward their executives and employees.

A mid-sized consumer products company introduced a relative total shareholder return (TSR) measure to its long-term incentive program.

Barry Sullivan joins other leading compensation consultants to give advice on some of the most vexing questions and issues facing compensation committee chairs and members.

Blair Jones offers her insights on board composition and what lies ahead in 2018 in the KPMG Board Composition Report.

As the dust settles on the 2017 proxy season, shareholders have once again ratcheted up their demands for broader corporate accountability.

In a Q&A with Equilar, Blair Jones offers her insights on the issues surrounding board composition and director recruiting, including but not limited to board size, age and tenure limits, diversity, and committee construction.

High corporate profits combined with low economic growth have made business leaders hungry for investment opportunities, and M&As can appear highly attractive.

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Graham Kenny posits that nonfinancial measures should be included alongside financial measures in incentive plans.