Record opposition this year to soaring CEO compensation sparked what some observers called a “shareholder spring” in the US and Europe. Executive pay packages for 12 S&P 500 companies failed to win majority shareholder support, while several high-profile CEOs in the UK lost their jobs at least partly as a result of investor “say on pay.”
While these compensation and governance ballot proposals can put corporate communicators on the defensive, they can do a lot to level the playing field in ...