Summary
Compensation of chief executive officers
Many corporate boards are adopting creative performance-linked CEO compensation strategies that reward CEOs for sound management while safeguarding shareholder interests. These innovative compensation packages include mega-grants to CEOs and CEO-owners, exchangeable annual incentives that can be swapped for stock options, leveraged and safety net options, and fixed-price variable-reward performance options. These compensation packages have one common denominator in that they allow CEOs to benefit from long-term growth in stock values through generous stock-based compensation.See the full content of this document
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Bold thinking.
It hardly matters who is talking or listening: The issue of CEO compensation seems to be an inexhaustible topic. How much is too much? It's not how much, but how! How high is too high?
In our fifth annual survey of CEO pay, published in September, we suggested that the issue to be addressed is this: "Do the CEO and the stockholders share a common economic destiny--one where the CEO's rewards reflect those received by the company's investors?...See the full content of this document
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