Glass Lewis Blog

Despite a year-to-year decline in the number and value of one-time awards granted to executives, sign-on, make-whole and retention awards continue to represent a significant cost to companies and their shareholders. In this post, we [...]

  In recent years, director commitments policies have become more prevalent at U.S.-based companies. Director commitments policies can reduce risks stemming from potentially overcommitted directors, facilitate active board refreshment and ensure that a board engages [...]

Biodiversity risk represents a significant and growing financial risk, with the potential to impact global economic value directly and indirectly through operational risks, transition costs, environmental liabilities and more. A 2020 report by the World [...]

As societies worldwide grapple with inequality, exploitation, and worker safety concerns, various stakeholders have increasingly engaged with companies on issues from workforce diversity and alleged labor rights violations to a range of practices and policies [...]

Earlier this year, Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) launched the Corporate Value-Up Program to address the so-called “Korea Discount”, which has led Korean companies to be valued lower than their global peers. Inspired by a [...]

The board of directors is at the heart of corporate governance – and as the responsibilities associated with the board expand to cover topics like ESG and cybersecurity risk oversight, as well as destabilizing market [...]

Whether you call it compensation or remuneration, how — and how much — executives get paid is a lightning rod for companies and investors around the world. The 2024 proxy season even saw questions raised [...]

While Australian large-cap CEOs often have short-term incentive (STI) and long-term incentive (LTI) opportunities of identical quantum, executives frequently view STIs as significantly more valuable than LTIs. This sentiment is so commonly expressed during our [...]