Timely data on how boards and management teams are thinking about tariffs, the impact on business performance, and short- and long-term incentive plans.
Insights and Research
Quick Poll: The Anticipated Impact of Tariffs on Incentive Plans
Research Report | May 2025 | Jannice Koors
Insights and Research
The Pearl Meyer team includes industry experts with deep knowledge and experience in all aspects of compensation and leadership. Here they provide valuable insight on emerging issues and developing trends. They offer compelling solutions for challenging situations and advice on maximizing opportunities. Read on and learn more about how Pearl Meyer’s team can help you connect pay, people, and performance.
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Boards Championing Innovation: Shepherding Growth in an Uncertain World
When governed with the same rigor as financial oversight or risk management, innovation can be a core lever of long-term value creation.

Constructing a Compensation Peer Group
Before any market analysis takes place, the approach to developing a peer group should be rooted in a deliberate and philosophy-based manner.

Ensuring a Strategic Partnership with Your Advisor
It’s a good exercise for boards to periodically think about the core traits required for a strategic consulting partner.

Falling Oil Prices and Tariffs Are Undermining Short-Term Incentive Plans
How compensation committees are thinking about mitigating the STI impact of missed market estimates and global market disruption

Beyond the Proxy: Why Compensation Peer Group “Disclosure” Matters Internally
While executive compensation peer groups tend to get the spotlight, market comparisons play an important role in shaping pay at all levels.

Hot Topics in Private Biotech
Private companies face unique compensation challenges, from limited market data to complex equity structures shaped by illiquidity and funding constraints.

Sizing Up Retention and Transaction Bonus Pools
As a merger, acquisition, or sale takes shape, whether and how much to pay for bonuses is a key decision point for compensation committees.

Highlights from Pearl Meyer’s 2024/2025 Compensation Planning Survey
As HR teams plan for 2025 salaries, our latest survey highlights the need for reliable market data to guide compensation decisions.

2025 Proxy Season Early Returns in the Oil & Gas Sector
New data for oilfield services and exploration and production companies provide insight on CEO base salary changes and incentive plan trends.
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New Directions for Director Pay
Boards, primarily focused on their fiduciary responsibilities, often overlook their compensation. Yet, like executive pay, board compensation can drive value. Strategic pay structures are crucial for attracting and retaining directors who enhance a visionary board sensitive to risks and opportunities, thus boosting organization's success.

Work Has Changed
How boards and management teams can navigate disruption and drive human capital transformation.

Private Companies
We offer experience and guidance that helps private organizations attract, motivate, and develop the talent that will move your strategy forward.
