This article compares and contrasts the differences in director compensation programs among various types of companies (including publicly traded companies, privately held companies, and non-profit organizations)

Investors and the business media may be vexed about rich executive pay plans, but "golden parachute" severance packages stir particular outrage. Too often, it seems, this departure pay rewards failure, is based on inflated numbers, and loses "say on parachute" investor votes. How can your board...

Due to a variety of reasons, including new accounting rules, response to investor concerns and a desire to strengthen the link between pay and performance, many companies are shifting their emphasis in executive long-term incentive programs from stock options to performance shares. A major cause...

Privately-held companies (“Private Companies,” which include family owned and in some part not for profit) sometimes approach compensation very differently from publicly traded companies (“Public Companies”). While the compensation philosophies may be different, the total compensation...

This article looks at the individual elements of compensation packages as well as design features of short-term and long-term incentive plans (STIPs and LTIPs) among CEOs and senior executives of Russell 3000 companies. Data is from companies that filed proxy statements between July 1, 2019, and...

This papers evaluates and compares the typical cash incentive structure for various "value creation" professionals, including sales people and brokers, cost savers, investment managers and advisors, and private equity professionals

Starting in the 1990s, the term “new economy” has become a popular buzzword to reflect the overall view that something has changed and that the economy now works differently. Few studies clearly define the term “new economy” and it seems to mean different things to different people....