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A global pandemic brings soaring unemployment, mass layoffs and plunging revenues. All of these, in turn, mean that the tidy executive pay plans you developed just a few months ago [...]

As American boardrooms have strengthened the status of lead directors (and, increasingly, split the roles of CEO and chairman), this board leadership evolution has driven many governance changes. One question [...]

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued new regulations for the cancellation and reissuance of stock options.

Companies looking for ways to retain employees in this volatile employment market with still must comply with FASB standards. This is especially true if companies wishes to improve, change, or cancel compensations especially if the plan includes company stock.

Cash-based director retirement plans can be terminated amid shareholder claims that they reduce director autonomy. They can be terminated by prohibiting new plan entrants or by entirely terminating them. Under the latter alternative, companies should calculate the current value of the benefits accruing to each director and distribute the amounts in company stock, deferred stock plans, rabbi trusts or cash.

It is the strangest feeling to be reading a book you didn't write ,and suddenly realize that you're reading words that you did write. This happened to me while I [...]

The compensation committee of the board of directors in a public company has several critical responsibilities. Most importantly, the committee establishes the goals and objectives that apply to the chief [...]

America's ethnic diversity has brought many obvious benefits to our society, from the gastronomic (Thai cuisine in Atlanta) to the cultural (salsa dance clubs in Minneapolis) to the political (Haitian [...]

High CEO turnover has made setting a sound executive pay package crucial both for attracting and retaining a leader. However, rules are changing for the compensation paid to new CEOs. [...]

There are a number of mail order houses in Washington D.C. that offer delivery of special food gifts from oatmeal to chocolate-covered marshmallows.

In the early 1970's, when I first met Gerald in our journalism classes at the University of Missouri, he was a fairly terrifying figure. He was working hard to win [...]

The legacy of Wheeling Gaunt, a former slave, continues in Yellow Springs, OH as several widows receive free sacks of flour and sugar every December. Each widow in Yellow Springs, OH is given free 10 pounds of flour and 10 pounds of sugar by town employees.

The article deals with the decision of the Dramatists Guild Foundation to increase its cash gifts to playwright in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The foundation has increased its emergency grants from 40,000 dollars in 2011 to 150,000 dollars in 2019 and is planning to award 200,000 dollars in 2020. Donors include Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation.

Focuses on the enjoyment of visiting baseball stadiums in the U.S. Suggestion on ways to get into the Yankee Stadium; Resources on planning a stadium trip; Satisfaction of families on visiting stadiums.