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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Do Metrics Based on ESG Objectives Belong in Incentive Plans?
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S2 Ep4: Most companies track ESG metrics—but should they factor into incentive plans?
The Compensation Committee's Role in Driving a Successful People Strategy
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Best-in-class compensation committees identify key strategic priorities or challenges in the human capital space that will have a true impact on performance.
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.
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