EVA (Economic Value Added or economic profit) has a long history of intermittent use in corporate performance measurement. It was widely used as a funding formula for corporate incentive plans in the first half of the 20th century, it enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1990s under the...

In Total Compensation Strategy,quot; Steven O'Byrne argues that the typical corporate compensation plan is flawed. Even though a large proportion of the current year's compensation may be quot;at risk,quot; the commitment to maintaining competitive levels of compensation in all future years...

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) announced a new approach to evaluating pay for performance in late 2011. This paper explains the new approach, highlights four significant weaknesses of the new approach and explains how ISS could substantially improve its Pay for Performance Model, now...