As oil and gas peer groups continue to shrink, relative performance frameworks require a more thoughtful design process.
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Rethinking Effective Performance Peer Groups in Today’s Oil & Gas Sector
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LTIPs and Private Companies: Seven Questions
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Long-term incentive plans for private organizations can be challenging to design, but there are also some unique advantages.
How Do You Handle Recruiting and Retention During a Crisis?
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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
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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
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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
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Survey data show that during this pandemic the banking industry has been conservative in its pay actions for directors.
Quick Polls: Banking Edition
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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
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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
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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?
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A discussion of how to balance appropriate changes to pay programs with staying the course.
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