How Incentive Plans Shape Executive Behavior
By Adam Swietek
Service Type: Board Advisory Services
Meridian Alert: Glass Lewis Ending Benchmark Vote Recommendations Next Fall
By Adam Swietek
The Difference Between Activity and Value Creation
By Adam Swietek
Industry Update: Oil & Gas Say on Pay Support Continues to Strengthen in 2026
By Adam Swietek
Signal No. 002: Executive Security and Personal Use of Corporate Aircraft Perquisites for S&P 500 CEOs
By Adam Swietek
Signal No. 001: Tariff-Related Adjustment of Executive Incentives
By Adam Swietek
Canadian Insight: Three Keys to Incentive Design
By Adam Swietek
Translating Strategy Into 3 Measurable Outcomes
By Adam Swietek
Is Your Incentive Plan Actually Tied to Strategy?
By Adam Swietek
Are Executive Severance Programs Discouraging Timely Retirement?
By Adam Swietek
Industry Update: When Commodity Prices Outpace Incentive Plan Assumptions
By Adam Swietek
Is the Era of PSUs Coming to an End? The Rise of Long-Vesting RSUs
By Adam Swietek
Industry Update: Trends in Asset Management Compensation
By Adam Swietek
2026 Study of CEO Employment Agreements
By Adam Swietek
Meridian Compensation Partners Elects Darren Moskovitz as Co-Managing Partner
By Adam Swietek
Executive Pay as a Signal for Good (or Poor) Governance
By Adam Swietek
GameStop CEO Granted Large, Performance-Based, Stock Option Award
By Adam Swietek
10 Questions for Mining and Metals Compensation Committees Ahead of the Q1 Meeting
By Adam Swietek
What do Recent Challenges to Proxy Advisor Influence Mean for Public Company Compensation?
By Adam Swietek
Time-Based Pay Gains New Ground
By Adam Swietek
ISS Extends Pay Performance Lens
By Adam Swietek
Pay Disclosures Investors Love to Hate
By Adam Swietek
SEC Poised for Significant Disclosure Changes in 2026
By Adam Swietek
Major Changes Ahead for Executive Pay Disclosure and Oversight
By Adam Swietek
An Alternative to Noncompetes
By Adam Swietek
Consumer Discretionary Industry Voting Outcomes on Equity Incentive Plans Over the Past Three Years
By Adam Swietek
Plan Share Reserves a Year Ahead
By Adam Swietek
Adjusting Grant Timing to Manage Share Reserves
By Adam Swietek
Run Rate: A Key Equity Metric
By Adam Swietek
Equity Compensation Can Be Costly and Dilutive
By Adam Swietek
Why and How CEOs Have Exited
By Adam Swietek
Best Practices for Performance Incentives
By Adam Swietek
Equity Usage — Managing the Compensation Committee’s Largest Investment
By Adam Swietek
Are CEO Stock Ownership Guidelines in Oil & Gas Too Low?
By Adam Swietek
Long-Term Incentive Plans for Volatile Times: The Case for a 3×1 Approach
By Adam Swietek
Building Alignment Through Ownership Rules
By Adam Swietek
No One Approach Fits All to Ownership Guidelines
By Adam Swietek
How RSUs Influence Ownership Levels
By Adam Swietek
Holding Requirements are a Growing Ownership Guideline Trend
By Adam Swietek
A Fresh Look at Stock Ownership Guidelines
By Adam Swietek
Prevalence of Executive Chair Roles
By Adam Swietek
CEO vs. Executive Chair Explained
By Adam Swietek
Setting Executive Chair Pay
By Adam Swietek
Defining the Responsibilities of Executive Chair
By Adam Swietek
The Evolving Role of the Executive Chair in Corporate Governance
By Adam Swietek
Deals and Departures: Tweaking Severance at the Moment of Change
By Adam Swietek
Finding the Performance Metrics That Fit
By Adam Swietek
Selecting Annual Incentive Financial Metrics
By Adam Swietek
Aligning Pay With Individual Performance
By Adam Swietek
Setting Realistic Goals
By Adam Swietek