Share This Email: May 21, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Chapter I: The Couch Where It All Begins Somewhere in Marin County, California a woman with two master’s degrees, $132,000 in student debt, and 3,000 unpaid clinical hours under her belt is
Share This Email: May 19, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants INTRO: The Long Slow Climb Down the Ladder There was a time—cue the violins and grainy newsreel footage—when “academic excellence” meant something. A time when college-bound seniors didn’t hyperventilate over red ink.
Share This Email: May 14, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants INTRODUCTION: HOLLYWOOD HIGHWAY ROBBERY Hollywood doesn’t do subtle. Neither does its executive compensation. In a town where the phrase “a little over budget” means “we doubled it and blamed the CGI”, no one is
Share This Email: May 12, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Part I: The Birth of a Movement – Or Was It a Band-Aid? In the beginning, there was guilt. And lawsuits. And political pressure. That triple cocktail, shaken—not stirred—under the fluorescent lights of smoky
Share This Email: May 7, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Welcome to Wasteworld - Pilot Episode: "Enter the Park" Billed as the world’s most exclusive executive development experience, Wasteworld is a sprawling simulation park built by shareholders, run by consultants, and controlled
Share This Email: May 05, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Let’s face it: we live in an era where the average S&P 500 CEO now makes 417 times what the average worker earns. That’s not a typo. That’s not inflation.
Share This Email: April 30, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Let’s get one thing straight: the world has gone completely batsh*t. Markets are convulsing like a caffeinated goat on a pogo stick. CEOs are doing their best Shakespeare impressions — full of sound and
Share This Email: April 28, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Once upon a time, flight attendants were aspirational. Icons of the jet age. Polished, poised, and admired. They weren’t just crossing oceans – they were crossing into a new cultural archetype: independent, worldly, stylish. That
Share This Email: April 23, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO, Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants First, they came for the interns. Then the back-office accountants. Then the legal associates, the analysts, the strategists, the ghostwriters. And just when the CEO thought he was safe on the 59th floor with his
Share This Email: April 21, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Let’s be honest. When I first got into the business of executive compensation, I never imagined I’d spend quite so much time talking about tariffs. But here we are in 2025 and suddenly,
Share This Email: April 16, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Behind every billion-dollar brand is a CEO who didn’t throw a tantrum at least once—and that person doesn’t exist. Whether it’s an impromptu expletive in a budget meeting or a prototype
Share This Email: April 14, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner: CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants As Major League Baseball’s latest season kicks off, the only thing soaring higher than Shohei Ohtani’s launch angle is the collective payroll. Every time a player swings a bat, a decimal weeps -
Share This Email: April 9, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner, CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants It’s official: the champagne is flowing again at 200 West Street. Bonus season on Wall Street has arrived like a rogue wave, and this year it’s less about subtle celebrations and more about
Share This Email: April 7, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner, CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants The Real Battlefield Isn’t Global—It’s Corporate While politicians bicker over trade wars, tariffs, and foreign policy grandstanding, the real global conflict is playing out not on the factory floor—but in the
Share This Email: March 31, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner, CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants There’s a rising chorus among political hopefuls demanding the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education. And by "rising chorus," I mean the usual campaign trail kabuki: fiery soundbites for the
Share This Email: March 24, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner, CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants There’s something oddly universal about executive compensation: no matter the language, culture, or GDP, CEOs everywhere are still figuring out how to get paid—and how to make sure someone else signs off on
Share This Email: March 24, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner, CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Fear and Loathing in Executive Pay: The Payouts Should Be as Big as the Challenges We were somewhere around Wall Street when the total compensation package began to take hold. The neon lights of corporate
Share This Email: March 19, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner, CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Everyone complains about government waste, corruption, and inefficiency, but when someone actually steps up to fix it, they get attacked from all sides. Then go on to imagine: * The stock in your business dropped 54%
The SEC Just Complicated Shareholder Engagement—Why? - Because it Can Share This Email: March 17th, 2025 Written by Frank Glassner, CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Ah, just in time for the peak of proxy season, the SEC has tossed a new wrench into the gears of shareholder engagement. Because
Cigna to Tie Executive Compensation to Customer Satisfaction Share This Email: March 19th, 2025 Thanks to Rebecca Pifer Cigna has announced a plan to improve healthcare affordability and accessibility, including linking executive compensation to customer satisfaction. The insurer will tie bonus awards for high-level officers to its net promoter score
Navigating Compensation in Mergers & Acquisitions: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Who Cashes Out Before the Dust Settles Share This Email: March 10th, 2025 Written by Frank Gassner, CEO Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants Mergers and acquisitions (M&A): the high-stakes poker game of the corporate world. Executives make bold
The Transformation of the CEO — Global CEO Turnover Index Annual Report Share This Email: March 5th, 2025 Thanks to Rusty O’Kelley and Laura Sanderson The latest figure of 202 departures in 2024 significantly surpasses the six-year average of 186 and represents a 9% increase from the 2023 number. The
The DEI Dilemma Share This Email: March 3rd, 2025 Thanks to David A. Katz and Elina Tetelbaum We wrote recently about regulatory and policy developments that are ushering in a retreat from ESG at public companies, proxy advisors, and investors. As companies head into proxy season, the appropriate manner and
How a Small Component in Pay Reveals Insights into Corporate Trends Share This Email: February 24th, 2025 Thanks to Subodh Mishra, ISS STOXX In a follow-up to our whitepaper, “What ‘Perks’ Can Tell Us About Executive Compensation,” ISS-Corporate reviewed the pay structures for Russell 3000 companies that held annual general