ITV & The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

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Life is full of strange coincidences. As the mobile phone rang on Sunday morning with a question from a journalist about Tony Ball turning down a proposed £20 million package to take the hot seat at ITV, I happened to be reading a review of Rakesh Khurana’s 2002 …… continue reading >>

CEOs Don’t Fear the Reaper….

“He who dies with the most toys still dies” was a quote on the No Fear brand of T-shirts a few years ago. Funnily enough that saying came to mind when news of Amalgamated Bank’s shareholder proposals against “Golden Coffins” came out this week.

For the uninitiated, a Golden Coffin, in exec comp …… continue reading >>

Putting the ‘extra-financial’ into CEO pay

When it comes to incentive pay schemes, it’s rare to encounter a scheme that strays from the ‘tried and trusted’ EPS and TSR performance measures. Anything that seeks to focus to a significant degree on extra-financial performance measures is for all practical purposes non-existent.

As the debate on performance-related pay rumbles on, many …… continue reading >>

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