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Adjusted Earnings
Even with fewer bonuses and stock options, the average CEO salary shot up 16.2 percent in 2003, thanks to a spike in casino business reports HVS’s annual CEO performance study.
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All "A" Board: Gaming Industry's Best Boardrooms Unveiled
The annual HVS Executive Search review of US Gaming Boards is the cover story for the January 2013 issue of Casino Journal. This year we determine that governance improves with shareholder activism.
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Are Hoteliers Checking Out of the Boardroom?
Today’s public hotel companies are rarely led by executives that have grown up in the business. Is the need for hands-on hotel experience a thing of the past in the boardroom?
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Backdating and Spring Loading Stock Options - The Dark Side
The IRS has decided that employees who cashed in on backdated options may have increased tax liability and face significant financial penalties.
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Board Directors Sitting on the Hot Seat
As the SEC, White House and Congress continue to define board and CEO performance standards, we find that some companies are doing an excellent job. Host Hotels & Resorts lead the 11th HVS Executive Search board performance study of U.S. hotels.
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Board Sports - How Can European Hotel Companies Improve Their Score?
The HVS Executive Search annual review of corporate governance practices at European hotel companies sees Rezidor take top honours.
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CEO Pay - The Hot Potato
HVS Executive Search names Jeffery H. Boyd President & Chief Executive Officer of priceline.com as the hotel industry’s top-performing chief executive officer of 2008 in its 16th Annual CEO Survey.
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CEO Pay by the Numbers
CEO pay continues to be a highly scrutinized topic, especially in today's economic environment. We argue that when compensation programming is done correctly, a CEO's pay should be based on performance relative to his or her peers.
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CEO Selection - a Board Game
These days demanding investors, stringent regulators and scandal-hungry media are forcing companies to operate under much heightened scrutiny.
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Changing of the Guard
If there has been any positive effect to the recent debacles in the world of corporate governance (Tyco, Enron, Adelphia, Worldcom) it is that Wall Streeter’s and Shareholders have become “educated buyer”.
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Compensation & Corporate Governance in East Asia
Not to long ago Eastern Asia’s economy was lauded as a financial miracle. Foreign business leaders and academic’s admired and studied the concept of Guanxi, (cooperation through personal networking).
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Corporate Governance and Organizational Culture
Organization structure can affect the quality of corporate governance. Companies need to carefully analyze their strengths and weaknesses and recruit new directors that can enhance the competency of the overall board of directors.
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