In my work with the compensation committees of boards of directors, as both an internal compensation expert as well as an external consultant, I've found that the most effective committees have ...

As much has been written regarding the repeal of the performance-based exception to the $1 million dollar deduction limitation under Code Section 162(m) under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act), we ...

A compensation committee is best served when it makes executive compensation decisions in the boardroom informed by both its compensation consultant’s benchmarking and peer group data and its legal ...

There was a time when new directors consciously avoided serving on the audit committee because of the work involved and the heightened focus from the outside. Skip ahead to today, and you’ll hear that ...

Executive pay has become a symbol of inequality and, to some extent, it is seen as a symptom of wider societal issues. For their part, shareholders may view high pay, especially when it does not ...

There's no question the responsibilities of the board's compensation committee have escalated, particularly since the 2008 financial crisis and with passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and ...

While executives hold significant authority in a company's management decisions, there are various restrictions regarding the ...

As CEO incentive pay packages bring attention to transparency issues in executive compensation, a group of directors and chief risk officers from The Directors and Chief Risk Officers Group published ...

Every year, shareholders of U.S. companies weigh in on executive pay by casting advisory votes on the reports of compensation committees. The committees are appointed by corporate boards to make ...

Corporate compensation committee activity picked up sharply last year as the government pushed to make executive pay standards more transparent under a broader shareholder-friendly policy drive.

While directors hold significant authority in a company's management decisions, there are various restrictions regarding the ...