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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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From Innovation to Accounting and Back Again
S1 Ep6: Is it possible to identify and incorporate executive incentive plan metrics that spur innovation?

Creating Space for Non-Financial Metrics
S1 Ep5: When the goal is long-term value creation, does it ever make sense to introduce a non-financial metric?

Testing Assumptions: Do We Have the Right Metrics?
S1 Ep4: A conversation on relative metrics, and the merits of correlation analysis to understand if your pay program is aligned to long-term value creation.

The Near-Term Problem with Long-Term Forecasting
S1 Ep3: The pros and cons of several creative ideas that can take the sting out of current long-term incentive plan design challenges.

Management's Annual Incentive Plans: Stretch Goals or Layups
S1 Ep 2: How to smooth out potential tension between the board and management around rigor of the annual incentive plan targets.

Is it Feeling Like Spring 2020?
S1 Ep 1: Compensation committees and consultants are dealing with a wide variety of unknowns.

Texas HR: Resilient Leadership
In this episode Lisa Shall talks about CEO succession planning and the qualities that make a leader resilient.

Winning the Talent War in Life Sciences
Developing an effective compensation strategy can be less than straightforward for companies that are still pre-revenue.
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