Stock awards have become a key compensation vehicle used by boards in their efforts to better align pay and performance for the long term, almost entirely replacing stock options. It is one of the main findings from a new report, CEO and Executive Compensation Practices: 2018 Edition, a collaboration by The Conference Board, Gallagher, and…
As board evaluation processes mature, directors are becoming more willing to conduct in-depth evaluations of their peers and the full board, including asking members of management to describe their perspective on the board’s overall effectiveness via a third-party consultant. Though management’s input was once thought to be an unnecessary source of information, boards and consultants…
Keeping a job, any job, for 20 years or more is becoming rarer and rarer. The feat may be uniquely treacherous for the chief executive officer of a publicly traded company that is judged on quarterly performance. As goes the company, so goes the CEO’s career. Among the companies that comprise the S&P 500 index,…
Boards are stuffing audit committees with new directors who have deep financial backgrounds as well as digital and e-commerce experience. Directors appointed to the boards of such companies as Becton Dickinson Co., Chesapeake Energy, GameStop, JetBlue Airways, MGM Resorts International, PulteGroup and United Rentals during the past four weeks have also been assigned to serve on audit committees, according to intelligence from SEC filings…
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