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How Do You Handle Recruiting and Retention During a Crisis?
                                            Directors want to know if executive recruitment in the current environment is problematic and if they need to be concerned about retention.
                                    
             
Coronavirus and Compensation: Highly Impacted Industries can Follow the Oil & Gas Playbook
                                            As companies across industries review executive pay programs, they can learn from the experiences of the oil and gas sector.
                                    
             
Reevaluating Short- and Long-Term Incentive Plans During A Crisis
                                            How to evaluate current executive incentive plans to understand if they align to our new reality.
                                    
             
Quick Poll Banking Edition: How Coronavirus is Affecting Director Compensation
                                            Survey data show that during this pandemic the banking industry has been conservative in its pay actions for directors.
                                    
             
Quick Polls: Banking Edition
                                            This report presents data on the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on compensation practices in the banking and credit union industry.
                                    
             
Executive Compensation in Bankruptcy: Motivating Key Employees through Corporate Financial Distress
                                            During bankruptcy, retention of key employees is important. Here’s a rundown of common compensation tools and an overview of their regulation.
                                    
             
How Coronavirus is Affecting Director Compensation
                                            The latest survey data from more than 300 companies showing boards’ actions on director pay in response to the pandemic.
                                    
             
Conducting Business Under Lockdown: Do Your Executive and Director Compensation Programs Need to Change?
                                            A discussion of how to balance appropriate changes to pay programs with staying the course. 
                                    
             
Quick Poll: How Coronavirus is Affecting Broad-Based Pay and Benefits
                                            How more than 360 companies are managing the impact of the current pandemic to their broad workforce’s pay and benefits.
                                    
            
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