Executive compensation

A survey showed that CEOs worldwide are making exponentially more money than people think they should.

Five questions to help companies align ESG priorities with executive compensation.

The question over how best to link CEO compensation to company performance defies an easy answer. But in the current financial crisis, the atmospherics...

It’s also the case in societies with more tolerance for inequality.

And how to fix them.

"Inconspicuous consumption"--elite consumers' affinity for discreet rather than traditionally branded luxuries--has become a global phenomenon. Work by...

To change CEOs' behavior, we need to change the numbers we measure and emphasize.

According to a study of 1,741 executives, showcasing merit can move the needle when it comes to compensation.

How boards can align executives’ incentives with the priorities of their employees, customers, and communities.

The white hot debate about executive compensation has focused almost exclusively on the “short-termism” of CEOs, other business leaders, and boards at corporations. The causes of the financial meltdown–excessive leverage, imprudent risk-taking, shoddy judgments–stemmed, in important part, from executives’ seeking to gain huge annual bonuses and drive up the immediate value of stock options, with […]

Each year most public companies issue reports describing the pay packages of their CEOs. In them compensation committees attempt to explain the rationale...

Analysis of college coach compensation shows how hard it is to align pay with performance.

The knock on most CEOs is that their focus is too myopic--that they're fixated on achieving short-term goals to increase their pay. If you studied results...

The country's recent reforms don't go nearly far enough.

The case against bonuses and stock options.

Portland's new compensation rule is keying off the wrong measure.

Leaders' pay should be tied to corporate mission, not strategy.

So far, it seems to be working.

Since 1960 the U.S. economy has moved from largely financing the exploitation of natural resources to making the most of talent. The rewards to executives...

Most compensation packages do a poor job of linking pay to performance. Our research of pay packages at 702 publicly traded U.S. companies between 1995 and 2004 reveals that on average a 1% increase in company value generated a 0.43% increase in the estimated wealth of senior executives. That might not seem unreasonable, but there […]

Ball used Economic Value Added analysis to determine if it should open a new metal can manufacturing facility, which mandated closing two recently acquired...

A private company is considering an introduction of a long-run incentive compensation system in which payoffs to managers are determined by the economic...

As the recession lingered on into 2009, the U.S. government sought to limit executive pay and excessive risk. The debate raged over what constituted excessive...

Five years after the Great Recession, Honeywell's CEO Dave Cote and his executive team reflect on the choices they made to manage costs and earnings forecasts...

Set in early-2017, this case examines widespread sales misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank. Wells Fargo's governance and controls are described in...

CEO Dave Cote spent six years turning around an ailing Honeywell and in 2008 Cote and his team face a new challenge: how to respond to the Great Recession....

This case examines the causes and consequences of the credit crisis of 2008 from a national and global perspective and explores the actions taken and...

Chase Russell grew up surrounded by his family's car wash business but had no desire to take it over. While in college, this perspective shifted suddenly...

The credit crisis of 2008 placed compensation practices at publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive...

Ball used Economic Value Added analysis to determine if it should open a new metal can manufacturing facility, which mandated closing two recently acquired...

The case offers a role-play simulation in which a team of up to 13 participants acts as a board of directors of a privately-owned national energy company....

This note is a brief introduction to the logic and practice of using stock options to compensate executives. The Black-Scholes option-pricing model is...

Continuation of the 'Tale of the Lynx' case series.

This case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation becomes...

Presents a three-way version of the RetailMax simulation requiring students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer,...

When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock options in April 2011, GE's compensation...

Faced with falling share prices and the critical eye of the media focused on Jack Welch's retirement plan, newly appointed CEO Jeff Immelt had the challenge...

CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design and roll-out of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration necessary for supporting her firm's new...

London-based activist hedge fund PrimeStone Capital identifies a potential investment in Swiss security company Kaba. PrimeStone believes that the company...

In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide...

Ball used Economic Value Added analysis to determine if it should open a new metal can manufacturing facility, which mandated closing two recently acquired...

A private company is considering an introduction of a long-run incentive compensation system in which payoffs to managers are determined by the economic...

A survey showed that CEOs worldwide are making exponentially more money than people think they should.

Five questions to help companies align ESG priorities with executive compensation.

Changing employers has been linked to larger pay increases for executives and managers. Although survey-based studies suggest that men gain more than...

The question over how best to link CEO compensation to company performance defies an easy answer. But in the current financial crisis, the atmospherics...

It’s also the case in societies with more tolerance for inequality.

And how to fix them.

"Inconspicuous consumption"--elite consumers' affinity for discreet rather than traditionally branded luxuries--has become a global phenomenon. Work by...

As the recession lingered on into 2009, the U.S. government sought to limit executive pay and excessive risk. The debate raged over what constituted excessive...