Using holding power as a strategic indicator of the compensation program’s health can ensure that it truly supports retention and long-term shareholder value creation.
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Testing Assumptions: Do We Have the Right Metrics?
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S1 Ep4: A conversation on relative metrics, and the merits of correlation analysis to understand if your pay program is aligned to long-term value creation.
The Near-Term Problem with Long-Term Forecasting
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S1 Ep3: The pros and cons of several creative ideas that can take the sting out of current long-term incentive plan design challenges.
Boards Championing Innovation: Shepherding Growth in an Uncertain World
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When governed with the same rigor as financial oversight or risk management, innovation can be a core lever of long-term value creation.
Management's Annual Incentive Plans: Stretch Goals or Layups
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S1 Ep 2: How to smooth out potential tension between the board and management around rigor of the annual incentive plan targets.
Constructing a Compensation Peer Group
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Before any market analysis takes place, the approach to developing a peer group should be rooted in a deliberate and philosophy-based manner.
Is it Feeling Like Spring 2020?
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S1 Ep 1: Compensation committees and consultants are dealing with a wide variety of unknowns.
Ensuring a Strategic Partnership with Your Advisor
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It’s a good exercise for boards to periodically think about the core traits required for a strategic consulting partner.
Falling Oil Prices and Tariffs Are Undermining Short-Term Incentive Plans
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How compensation committees are thinking about mitigating the STI impact of missed market estimates and global market disruption
Executive Development in the Oil and Gas Industry
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How a growth-focused O&G company future-proofed its leadership by aligning executive development with strategic M&A goals, and paved the way for internal CEO succession and long-term talent sustainability.
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