As business priorities shift, compensation committees must ensure incentive plans continue to reward the right executive behaviors and outcomes.
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Aligning Executive Compensation and Strategy Execution Shifts
Governance Resources | Oct 2026 | Jannice Koors | NACD
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Biopharma Peer Groups: Data-Driven Insights for Compensation Committees
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We sampled 150 biopharma companies to test whether the most common peer group criteria actually correlate with compensation outcomes.
Executive Succession and CEO Turnover
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S2 Ep3: Succession planning and CEO turnover are increasingly common agenda items for the Comp Committee this fall.
Preparing for Potential SPAC Mergers in Biotech
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For companies eyeing the public markets, a SPAC can be appealing—but it requires early preparation to ensure lasting success.
Performance-Based Equity Awards and Other LTI Trends
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S2 Ep2: Compensation committees must evaluate performance-based equity awards and other long-term incentive plan design trends to fit with the current macro-economic environment.
Rethinking Long-term Incentives: Adapting to Evolving Standards
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Proxy advisor firms have traditionally required at least 50% of executive LTI awards to be performance-based, but 2025 survey signals suggest this standard may be easing.
Understanding Pay for Performance in Executive Compensation Plans
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What pay for performance really means, how to measure true alignment, and the practices that keep it working over time.
Board Governance Is Evolving – Is Your Compensation Committee Keeping Pace?
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S2 Ep1: The evolving purview of the compensation committee and the implications of expanding governance responsibilities.
STI Plan Communication: Insights from the 2025 Pearl Meyer Survey for Oil & Gas Companies
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Pearl Meyer surveyed 16 oil and gas companies to highlight communication challenges and opportunities particularly relevant to the sector.
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