Do Any Climate-Related Incentive Comp Plans Get a Passing Grade?

As You Sow has issued an excellent; new report evaluating the 47 companies responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions, based on the incentive compensation based on achieving environmental goals. The companies were assessed on three indicators: One company got a B. Four got Cs. None got an A. Their findings:

ESG Metrics in Incentive Compensation

Pay Governance has a new report on ESG metrics in incentive compensation. The full report is below. Highlights: In 2020, 22% of survey respondent companies indicated they included ESG metrics in their incentive compensation plans; for 2021, 29% of companies reported they have incorporated ESG metrics in their incentive plans while 21% of companies indicated…

Redesigning Corporations: Incentives Matter

In the 21st century, capital is so much easier to raise that we should no longer have to sacrifice other public goods or the collective common interest in order to facilitate fund-raising. Our corporate laws should reflect this fact, but do not. With the “free” tailwind of today’s easy capital-raising, corporations have become massive in…

Pay Ratio, Proxy Disclosure and Say on Pay Data from Shareholder Value Advisors

A webinar hosted by Stephen F. O’Byrne of Shareholder Value Advisors, revealed the meaningful and material link between compensation and shareholder value, the missing metric, and what the data show: Average employee pay can provide great insight on the alignment of employee pay with management pay and shareholder value but the required analysis goes far…

Surprise! Comp Consultants Think CEO Pay is Just Fine

CEO compensation consultants Ira Kay, John Ellerman, and Sarah Blivens make the best arguments they can to support the current system of CEO pay in their firm’s newsletter. We believe that CEO compensation is a major competitive advantage for U.S. companies due to our own and extensive academic research, our decades of consulting with thousands…

Half of companies are reviewing their pay policies after #MeToo and Time’s Up

We hope this review is accompanied by clear and effective incentives and consequences to ensure a safe work environment with equal opportunities for women and minorities. Forty-eight percent of companies say they’re reviewing their pay policies to ensure parity between men and women in light of the #MeToo phenomenon and Hollywood’s Time’s Up movement, according…