Executive compensation and aspirational peer benchmarking

Small firms choose aspirational peers that reflect their executives' shifting opportunity sets. For these firms, compensation benchmarking is indicative of ...

Executive Compensation and Aspirational Peer Benchmarking

For these firms, compensation benchmarking is indicative of future growth and performance, and the rate at which pay adjusts toward peer levels ...

Executive Compensation and Aspirational Peer Benchmarking

Abstract. Small firms provide an excellent, yet previously unexamined, laboratory for studying the contro- versial practice of compensation benchmarking ...

Picking Peers: A Step In The Executive Compensation Process

Peer group benchmarking is more complicated than it sounds. ... The inclusion of outsized peers (or aspirational peers) ... benchmarks used in the executive ...

Avoiding Pitfalls in Peer Group Selection and Executive Pay ...

In the United States for example, many companies select aspirational peers based on ambitious growth targets or set pay levels above the peer ...

Podcast Summary - Evaluating Executive Pay Through an Activist ...

Activists may also scrutinize the use of aspirational peer groups for benchmarking, which can skew pay outcomes. Activists differ from ...

Getting the Most from Your Compensation Peer Groups | Pearl Meyer

These companies are competitors for business, capital, and most importantly, talent. By benchmarking against these peers, companies can ensure their executive ...

[PDF] Does it pay to 'Be Like Mike'? Aspiratonal peer firms and ...

Executive Compensation and Aspirational Peer Benchmarking · Thomas Ian ... compensation benchmarking since small firms have the opportunity to benchmark…

5 Principles for Successful Executive Pay Benchmarking

and/or higher paying “aspirational” peers can increase pay benchmarks. If companies routinely include either higher-paying or aspirational peers, the use of ...

The importance of selecting the right peer group when benchmarking

I was called in because a few months before that the CEO had asked for an executive compensation survey to take place, whereby his package and ...

Industry Leads the Way as Top Peer Group Criterion - Equilar

The peer group selection process is a critical component of executive compensation benchmarking at public companies. Peer groups provide ...

Peer Group Choice and Chief Executive Officer Compensation

Our new study examines the board of director choice of peer firms used in setting CEO compensation. One controversial question is whether ...

Benchmarking and CEO Compensation | RSF

It is possible that public accountability will force companies to gradually transition away from aspirational peer groups towards more obviously normative ...

How to design your peer group for compensation benchmarking

Given the scrutiny on executive compensation in recent years, it is critical to make sure that your company's executive pay reflects its performance and aligns ...

Is Disclosure an Effective Cleansing Mechanism? The Dynamics of ...

some firms may find it rational to benchmark against aspirational peer companies in CEO compensation to signal high CEO ability, especially when.

Self-Selecting Aspirational Peer Group: Impact on CEO Pay

The data reveal that high executive pay companies self-select larger than appropriate peers – in terms of market capitalization and revenue – ...

CEO Marketability, Employment Opportunities, and Compensation ...

Peer benchmarking helps a board retain a talented but risk-averse CEO,… Expand. Add to Library. Alert. Executive Compensation and Aspirational Peer Benchmarking.

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Thesis advisor: Philip Strahan / Chapter 1: Executive Compensation and Aspirational Peer Benchmarking Abstract: Using a comprehensive, hand-collected ...

Compensation Benchmarking, Leapfrogs, and the Surge in ...

Proponents of the “pay for performance” model see the matching of executive talent and firm characteristics as essential to the production of shareholder value.

Emerging trends in executive compensation: compensation ...

Compensation benchmarking is the phenomenon of benchmarking a firm's executive pay to that of the peer firms. In recent times, the practice of compensation ...