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Access more than 500-plus authoritative articles published by Directors & Boards For your convenience, the pop-up menu above provides
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Article reprints are $10 each. Click to add to shopping cartExecutive Compensation  'Say on Pay': The Thin Edge Of The Wedge -- Moves for shareholder approval of executive compensation prompt a perusal of prerogatives and powers. By columnist Hoffer Kaback.
Third Quarter 2007 [1 page(s)] It's the Cash Flow, Baby -- The solution to excessive CEO comp...as well as the basis of my personal investment strategy. By columnist Gary Sutton.
Third Quarter 2007 [1 page(s)] Director’s Guide: Personal Wealth Management -- Tips, tactics, and strategies for directors interested in managing and growing their wealth. Experts advise on working with professional money managers, benefiting from a blind trust, gaining liquidity from a concentrated equity position, art collecting (with an eye on the IRS), and stock option complexities. Edited by David Shaw and Scott Chase.
Third Quarter 2006 [5 page(s)] No Need to Pay Guaranteed Bonuses -- Other less-suspect alternatives can achieve desired recruitment and retention objectives. By Bruce Clouser of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Second Quarter 2005 [1 page(s)] Compensation: Being More 'on Message' -- How to transform the tenor of your disclosures to help shareholders better understand how successful businesses are managed and governed. By James Wright of The Bradford Group.
Second Quarter 2005 [5 page(s)] The Traps in Designing Benefit Packages -- When crafting benefit plans for their top brass, companies often make these 10 common mistakes that can reduce value to the participants. By Peter Mullin and Pattiann Firmiss of Mullin Consulting Inc.
Summer 2004 [2 page(s)] Comping' the CEO -- No longer can gobs of options be simply ladled onto a CEO's compensation package. By Robert Rock, Directors & Boards chairman.
Spring 2003 [1 page(s)] Crafting an Interim CEO's Pay Package -- How should he or she be compensated for this distinctive role? Here are the factors that boards should consider in devising an appropriate pay plan. By Doug Friske of Towers Perrin.
Spring 2003 [4 page(s)] Rethinking Today's CEO Pay Practices -- Guidelines for establishing pay plans that are simpler, better aligned with the capital and labor markets, and likely to be perceived as more equitable. By Peter Kontes of Marakon Associates.
Spring 2003 [4 page(s)] Have Stock Options Run Their Course? -- Note to compensation committees: Don't give up on stock options -- they can be better designed, in some bold ways, to accomplish your reward objectives. By Seymour Burchman, Blair Jones, and David Harper of Sibson Consulting.
Spring 2003 [4 page(s)] A New Look at CEO Retirement Benefits -- In a post-reformist world, severance packages are facing increased scrutiny. Guidance for boards on reworking the CEO's retirement provisions. By Doug Friske of Towers Perrin.
Winter 2003 [4 page(s)] Personal Loans Get the Legislative Boot -- What directors need to know about the personal loan prohibition and the forfeiture of pay provisions contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. By Thomas Hartman, Kenneth Winer, and Samuel Winer of Foley & Lardner.
Fall 2002 [3 page(s)] Enron Ain't the Problem -- Let's focus on this: Over the past decade, there has been a landslide transfer of wealth from public shareholders to corporate managers. By Martin T. Sosnoff of Atalanta/Sosnoff Capital Corp.
Spring 2002 [2 page(s)] Stock Options and Optimal Overhang -- Stock options must be allocated strategically by boards for optimum usage. The three key factors to consider in managing toward this 'sweet spot.' By Ira Kay of Watson/Wyatt Worldwide.
Spring 2001 [4 page(s)] Guiding Principles for an Effective Executive Compensation Program -- Here are 11 principles that can serve as the foundation and inspiration for crafting a sensibly designed and well-implemented executive pay program. By Fred Meuter Jr. of Fred Meuter Jr. & Associates.
Spring 2001 [3 page(s)] Is Everything Old New Again? -- When it comes to executive compensation, a review of the historical record of executive pay design can be helpful in crafting the right plan. Four tables, including "Selected Highlights of Executive Pay Development." By Bruce Ellig, compensation consultant and longtime Pfizer Inc. human resources executive.
Summer 2001 [6 page(s)] Of Barbs and Boards -- A treasure from the Directors & Boards archives: A corporate statesman, Edmund Littlefield, zings his fellow Bohemians over pay practices. By James Kristie, editor of Directors & Boards.
Summer 2001 [1 page(s)] CEO Stock Ownership Guidelines -- Some counsel on the efficiency of stock ownership guidelines, setting ownership goals that make sense, and other ideas for encouraging stock ownership. By James F. Reda of Buck Consultants.
Fall 2000 [2 page(s)] Executive Pay and Its Critics -- The author, a corporate director and former SEC commissioner, examines some steps a smart board and CEO can take to help avoid feeling the heat on the compensation issue. By Philip Lochner Jr.
Winter 2000 [4 page(s)] Crafting an Executive Stock Purchase (ESP) Program -- Why ESP programs work so well in meeting the needs of shareholders, directors, and management alike. Also, what makes a company a good candidate for such a program. By W.G. Jurgensen of Bank One Corp.
Fall 1999 [3 page(s)] Seven Myths About Stock Options -- Stock options do more for stockholders than motivate management to keep share prices high; indeed, that may be the least of what they do. Among common misconceptions: "Stock options make managers think like stockholders," "Stockholders own the company," and "Executive compensation is out of control." Wrong, says the author in this provocative commentary. By Richard Booth of the University of Maryland School of Law.
Summer 1999 [4 page(s)] Distortions in Value Creation -- The founder of the country's second-largest mutual fund organization asserts that the whole stock option process -- "wealth without risk" -- needs serious reconsideration. By John C. Bogle, retired chairman of the Vanguard Group.
Winter 1999 [2 page(s)] Stock Options -- The hidden costs. By Robert Rock, Directors & Boards chairman.
Spring 1998 [1 page(s)] Special Equity Grants: Do They Create Value? -- If megagrants are to be effective, they must have special performance characteristics. By Frederic W. Cook of Frederic W. Cook & Co.
Spring 1997 [4 page(s)] Executive Pay: Then, Now, and Ahead -- Four trends that will shape the board's decision making on compensation and executive rewards. Plus, a history in timeline display of compensation and benefits from the 1800s to present day. By John Balkcom and Roger Brossy, formerly of Sibson Consulting.
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