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Alan Mulally Reaps Big Rewards for Ford’s Revival: Market Watch

Managing Director, Paul McConnell, quoted by Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch on Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s stock award of $56.5 million. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mulally-reaps-big-rewards-for-fords-revival-2011-03-08 Read More

Dodd Frank: Another Chance for the SEC to Get Pay For Performance Right

The Dodd-Frank bill contains two new disclosure requirements regarding executive pay: the ratio between the CEO’s compensation and that of the median employee, and the relationship between compensation actually “paid” to executives and company stock Read More

CEO Succession: An Interview with Board Advisory & Bank Director Magazine

Originially Published in Board Member Magazine BD: Jack Milligan, associate publisher, Bank Director magazine McCutcheon: Jeff McCutcheon, managing director and founder, Board Advisory LLC McConnell: Paul McConnell, managing director and founder, Board Advisory LLC BD: Read More

Aligning Executive Pay with Risk Management in Banking

Originally published in Bank Director magazine. Recent board director surveys indicate bank directors find current legislative and regulatory actions unwarranted, and that existing bank executive compensation plans do not encourage imprudent behavior or excessive Read More

Executive Compensation: “Heads We Win, Tails You Lose”

[Originally published in Board Member Magazine.] It is not surprising the public perceives that executive compensation is a “heads we win, tails you lose” proposition. For the past three decades, executive pay plans have Read More

Executive Transitions: Treacherous Waters That Don’t Have to Be

Executive transitions into new roles and succession planning continue to be one of the greatest challenges organizations face. Regardless of the reason for the transition or the source of the executive, executive transitions fail at Read More

Aligning Tax Policy with Sound Executive Compensation Practices

If we want executives to act and be rewarded like investors, we should tax them like investors. As the chorus of public outrage over executive compensation rises to a new crescendo, it is understandable why Read More

Reconsidering Executive Rewards: Separating Equity from Annual Compensation

For the past three decades CEOs, Boards of Directors and compensation committees have allocated stock options and numerous other equity-based incentive rewards to executives based primarily on the annual competitive practice of peer companies.  In Read More

Will Executive Incentives Keep the “Bailout” from Working?

The infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds into the domestic financial system has created a fundamental change in the ownership structure of most banks.  By establishing the U.S. government as the Read More
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