Annual & Long-Term Incentive Program Design

NACD’s Leading Minds of Compensation program is a forum for engaged compensation committee chairs, members, and directors to exchange insights with the nation’s top thought leaders. View the video of this year’s panel, where Barry Sullivan answers three questions: Has TSR… Read more

Accelerating growth is on every CEO’s agenda. Each year business leaders commit to an overall revenue growth target, but the reality is that growth within a business is often very uneven. Some parts grow faster, and one hopes that they… Read more

In recent months, institutional investors have taken aim at the pervasiveness of short-termism and implored companies to better communicate their strategic framework for sustained, long-term value creation. Read more

Semler Brossy's Mark Emanuel was recently featured in Equilar's C-Suite magazine for his article, "Practical Tools for Fighting Short-Termism in Your Executive Pay Plans." Read more

There are days James Pethokoukis, a scholar at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, isn’t quite sure short-termism is the problem. “When you talk to companies they feel a lot of shareholder pressure to focus on quarterly returns,” he… Read more

As useful as such grants can be in some situations, they should be approached with skepticism. Read more

In recent years, no subject in executive compensation has gotten greater focus than the shift toward formulaic, performance-based incentive plans. The advent of annual say on pay, coupled with the increasing attention of institutional investors and proxy advisers, has accelerated this trend and now made this practice the norm. The focus has thus changed to ensuring that the goals underlying such programs are sufficiently rigorous and robust. Read more

Many leaders in the business, academic, and investment communities have been lamenting corporations’ increasingly short-term focus. Read more