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CompensationBlog
The Unintended Rocket Fuel for CEO Pay: It's Not Greed, It's the Mirror
CompensationBlog
The Illusion of "Good": Why Defining Performance is Surprisingly Contentious
CompensationBlog
The Investment Killer: Capital Return Metrics Punish Growth
CompensationBlog
The Growth Bonus Trap: Sales Pay Design is a Minefield
CompensationBlog
Escaping the Target Trap: The Power of Relative Performance
CompensationBlog
Integrated Pay-For-Performance
CompensationBlog
The Target-Setting Trap: Why Growth Goals Are Often Set Too High (and Why It Matters)
CompensationBlog
The Perils of Profit Margins: How This Seemingly Simple Metric Backfires
CompensationBlog
The Profit Problem: Why Focusing on Profit in Executive Pay Leads to Underperformance
CompensationBlog
The Pay-Performance Paradox: Why More Pay Doesn't Mean Better Results
CompensationPDF
Plansee: Incentives That Work — Obermatt Index Case Study
ESGBlog
The ESG Ratings Dilemma: Why Different Rating Agencies can't Agree
ESGBlog
The Missing Link in Social Impact Reporting: Why Benchmarks Matter
ESGBlog
Target-Based Sustainability: A New Era in Corporate Reporting
ESGBlog
Deconstructing Triple Bottom Line: A Critical Look at Corporate Sustainability Metrics
ESGBlog
Communicate performance for the future with your own ESG rating
CompensationArticle
Bonus Ban for Top Bankers: Experts Advise Against It — Tages-Anzeiger
ESGBlog
The Obermatt ESG Framework for ESG Reporting and Executive Compensation
ESGBlog
Join the ESG Panel to improve performance measurement and executive compensation
ESGBlog
Four insights about corporate ESG performance
ESGBlog
How many ESG metrics for executive compensation in corporations?
ESGBlog
Obermatt Triple Bottom Line: ESG in executive compensation made simple
ESGBlog
Why companies should use multiple ESG metrics
ESGBlog
33 ESG categories for executive compensation and 170 metrics
ESGBlog
7 challenges for rewarding ESG executive compensation
ESGBlog
Obermatt Triple Bottom Line ESG Framework: Three key takeaways
ESGBlog
Why companies need their own ESG rating
ESGBlog
3 reasons why impact valuation is bad at corporate ESG performance assessments
ESGBlog
Step by step implementation of the Obermatt ESG Framework in executive compensation
ESGBlog
What ESG metric types can corporations use for compensation? Think ESG effort!
ESGBlog
Obermatt Triple Bottom Line Introduction
CompensationBlog
Obermatt CEO Hermann Stern on more pay and more orientation towards the future
CompensationArticle
Pay, Peace, and Passion — Medium
ESGBlog
The Obermatt Triple Bottom Line ESG Performance Reporting Framework
CompensationBlog
Indexierte Leistungsmessung ist das Herz der Entstehungsgeschichte von Obermatt
CompensationVideo
Indexed Performance Measurement is at the Heart of Obermatt's Origin Story (Video)
ESGArticle
Invitation to Co-Develop ESG for Executive Compensation
ESGPDF
Better Executive Bonus Plans for ESG
ESGBlog
On Integrating Relative CO2 Performance into Executive Compensation under ARUG II
ESGPDF
Manager Bonuses vs. Climate Protection
StrategyPDF
Dynamic Corporate Management, Part 4: Implementation Experiences — WEKA
StrategyPDF
Dynamic Corporate Management, Part 3: Implementation Recommendations — WEKA
StrategyPDF
Dynamic Corporate Management, Part 2: Financial Control Processes — WEKA
StrategyPDF
Dynamic Corporate Management, Part 1: Problem Description — WEKA
StrategyArticle
The Best CEOs in Switzerland Are Quiet Achievers — Sonntagszeitung
CompensationArticle
These Are the Best CEOs in Switzerland (2018) — Sonntagszeitung
StrategyArticle
These Are the Best CEOs in Switzerland (2017) — Tages-Anzeiger
CompensationArticle
Bonuses Reward CEOs for Cutting Costs
CompensationBlog
Good News from ISS: Less Arbitrariness, Better Motivated Executives
CompensationBlog
Denkfehler bei Vergütungen und in der Altersvorsorge - eine Hommage an Daniel Kahnemann
CompensationVideo
Cognitive Biases in Compensation and Retirement Planning — A Tribute to Daniel Kahneman (Video)
CompensationBlog
Executive Compensation with a Downsizing Incentive
CompensationBlog
Executive Compensation with Incentive to Downsize
CompensationArticle
Profit Bonuses Only Tempt CEOs to Cut Costs — NZZ am Sonntag
CompensationVideo
The Compensation Fairy Tales (English)
CompensationPDF
On the Greed of Managers — Punktmagazin
CompensationBlog
Hermann Stern über Vergütungs-Fehler: Vortrag Schweizer Börse
CompensationVideo
Hermann Stern on Compensation Mistakes: Presentation at Swiss Stock Exchange (Video)
CompensationVideo
Fairy Tale 1: Executives Are Greedy (Video)
CompensationVideo
Fairy Tale 2: We Want Financial Results from Executives (Video)
CompensationVideo
Fairy Tale 3: Executives Should Be Paid Based on Results (Video)
CompensationVideo
Compensation Fairy Tales: Full Presentation
CompensationPDF
Risk Factor Compensation — CFO Aktuell
CompensationPDF
SRF 3: Excessive Compensation at CS and UBS (Audio)
StrategyPDF
Success Does Not Equal Performance — CFO Aktuell
StrategyPDF
Less Risk with Fewer Rules — Board
CompensationPDF
Compensation Fairy Tales — Controller Magazin
CompensationArticle
Obermatt Pay Study — BBC News
StrategyPDF
Setting Goals Is Not Hard — Personalwirtschaft
CompensationPDF
Manager Stock Options Are Often Not Ideal — Finanz und Wirtschaft
CompensationArticle
Obermatt Compensation Analysis — Financial Times
CompensationPDF
Revealed: The Best and Worst Value Bank Chiefs — Financial News
StrategyPDF
Case Study: Phoenix Solar
CompensationPDF
Like at the Olympics — Wirtschaftswoche
CompensationPDF
Search for Fairness in Management Compensation — NZZ
CompensationPDF
Crisis-Proof Performance Measurement and Bonus Plans
CompensationPDF
VorstAG — Quo Vadis? — Der Aufsichtsrat
CompensationPDF
Zumtobel Case Study: Obermatt Bonus Index — Controller Magazin
CompensationPDF
Bonuses Compared — NZZ am Sonntag
CompensationArticle
Salaries Like Bankers — NZZ
StrategyPDF
Crisis Managers — Finanz und Wirtschaft
CompensationPDF
Rewarding Performance Fairly and Transparently — Finanz und Wirtschaft
CompensationAudio
Interview with Bonus Expert Hermann J. Stern
CompensationArticle
They Really Exist — The Economist
CompensationArticle
On the Index: Executive Compensation — Focus
CompensationVideo
Dr. Hermann J. Stern on Indexed Executive Compensation
CompensationPDF
Crisis-Proof Bonus Systems — Controller Magazin
CompensationVideo
N-TV on the Obermatt HDAX Bonus Index with Short Interview Hermann J. Stern
CompensationVideo
Dr. Hermann J. Stern Interview on Manager Salaries and Bonus Payments
StrategyPDF
Market-Oriented Financial Management — Organisator
StrategyPDF
Benchmarking in the Supervisory Board for Corporate Governance — ZCG
StrategyBook
Market-Oriented Value Management (Book)
StrategyBook
The Value Cockpit: Seven Steps to Value-Oriented Management (Book)
CompensationPDF
Compensation: It Doesn't Always Have to Be Stocks
CompensationPDF
Unpopular Stock Option Plans — Handelszeitung
CompensationPDF
Ascom, CS and Executive Packages — Der Bund
CompensationPDF
Executive Compensation in Switzerland
CompensationPDF
Performance Pay: Not Always Linked to Performance — NZZ am Sonntag
CompensationPDF
Performance Counts for Little — Handelszeitung
CompensationPDF
Value-Maximizing Bonus Systems
CompensationPDF
Employee Stock Options with Flaws — NZZ am Sonntag
StrategyPDF
Communicative Rationalization of the Enterprise (Dissertation)
StrategyPDF
Key Success Factors of Corporate Networks (Diploma Thesis)
StrategyPDF
Motivational Effects of Self-Organization (Pre-Diploma)
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