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Articles about the Design of Executive Compensation:

• Candor for Compensation Committees (from Board Member Magazine, about making decisions that advance corporate best interests)
  • ​See also: Wachtell's 2017 Guide for Compensation Committees (137 pages!).
    
• Crossing the Pond . . . in Search of Better Executive Compensation Practices
• Executive Loyalty: From Velvet Glove to Iron Fist
• U.S. Executive Compensation Litigation: Cannons to the Right, and to the Left (reprinted from International Pension and Employee Benefit Lawyers Association)

Governance and Decision-making about Executive Compensation

• Independence  -- of Compensation Committees and their Advisors
  
• Director Compensation -- see Survey Data / Litigation / Shareholder-approved Limits
  
• Clawbacks
  
• Forms of Compensation - from types to business, tax, and accounting considerations.
• Proxy Advisory Firms (e.g. ISS) - see ISS Problematic Practices
  
• Securities Disclosure Issues
• Shareholder Approval(of Equity Plans)
  
• Stock Ownership Guidelines
  
• Survey Data
  
• D&O Insurance and Indemnification