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Agenda – Executive Pay Growth Slowed Last Year

Chief executives at S&P 1500 companies experienced sluggish pay growth last year as businesses grappled with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Still, the wage gap between leadership and workers showed growth by the largest margin in the past three years, according to a recent report. Overall, compensation experts such…

Read More > 11.10.2021

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Financial Times – Navigating the Bumpy Road to Net Zero

Salesforce, the cloud-computing company, announced in September that it had reached net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, even when counting its customers’ energy use. Board composition is critical to making progress, says Richard “RJ” Bannister, chief operating officer at Farient Advisors, a corporate governance consultancy in  the Financial Times article, “Navigating the…

Read More > 11.03.2021

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October 2021: SEC Proposes New Dodd Frank Rule

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September 2021: Getting Ready for The Next Chapter for Compensation Committees

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August 2021: Did COVID Disrupt Executive Pay Programs?

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2021 And Beyond: Global Trends In Stakeholder Incentives

Nothing has changed the way we think about stakeholder interests more than the COVID-19 pandemic. People, governments and commercial enterprises across North America, Asia, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia and Africa have been challenged by uncertainty on both the financial and social levels. To that end, this year’s…

Read More > 06.30.2021

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June 2021: Proxy Season Brings Unprecedented Change

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May 2021: In the Year of the Stakeholder: A Closer Look on Say at Pay Votes

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Agenda – In a SPAC-Driven World, How Much Is a Board Seat Worth?

Special purpose acquisition corporations (SPACs), also known as “blank check companies,” are non-operating publicly traded entities, created for the sole purpose of raising capital to finance the acquisition of an existing, privately held company that intends to go public. SPACs are a relatively inexpensive and expeditious way for such companies…

Read More > 05.11.2021

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Bloomberg – CEO Pandemic Pay: ‘Heads I Win, Tails I Win Almost as Much’

Norwegian Cruise Line called 2020 its “most challenging year.” The company lost $4 billion, a half decade’s worth of profit. Shares dropped 56%. Thousands of crew members lost their livelihoods. But Frank Del Rio, its chief executive officer, did just great in terms of CEO pandemic pay. He collected his…

Read More > 05.10.2021

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Reuters – GE shareholders rejected CEO Culp’s $230 million pay in rare rebuke

General Electric Co shareholders rejected top executives’ compensation packages, including a payout of as much as $230 million to CEO Larry Culp, at the industrial conglomerate’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. At least four other S&P 500 companies who have disclosed shareholder vote tallies with regulators have been defeated over…

Read More > 05.05.2021

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Las Vegas Review-Journal – Pay gap widens between casino CEOs, average casino workers

Casino CEO compensation has grown much faster than profits and stock prices over the years, according to findings from the Economic Policy Institute. According to the EPI’s latest report on American executive compensation, released in August, CEO pay at top U.S. firms grew 1,167 percent between 1978 to 2019, outpacing…

Read More > 05.05.2021

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