Executive Compensation: Strategies and Frameworks
Key Takeaways
Wharton’s Executive Compensation program explores the complexities of executive compensation planning in today’s rapidly evolving business environment. This program will enable you to:
Examine the key components of executive compensation plans
Identify an effective executive compensation plan for your organization
Align organizational objectives and key metrics with executive compensation plan criteria
Identify the effects of regulation when designing executive compensation plans
Collaborate with key stakeholders in the executive compensation planning process
Examine executive expectations of total compensation relative to public perceptions
Who Is This Program For?
This program offers strategies for successfully attracting, hiring, and retaining senior executives in today’s highly competitive executive compensation arena.
The program will be particularly valuable for:
Senior HR professionals seeking to understand the executive compensation planning process, how to use compensation strategies to influence positive senior leader behavior, and how to improve their organization’s executive compensation system.
Board members who want to learn how to leverage executive compensation strategies to attract and retain talent, assess and compensate executives, and ensure compliance with related regulations and corporate governance practices.
Senior executives looking to learn how to design an executive compensation plan that aligns with their organization’s strategic objectives and to discover strategies to improve performance, profitability, employee satisfaction, and collaboration with stakeholders throughout the executive compensation process.
Program Modules
Executive Compensation Playbook
Each module of the program contains essential elements of a playbook that you can use to reflect on your learning, access tools and frameworks, and complete activities that will help you build a compensation plan within your organization. Because there is no one-size-fits-all compensation plan, the playbook provides an opportunity for thoughtful consideration of your organization’s specific needs.
Program Experience
DISCUSSION BOARDS
INDUSTRY EXAMPLES
ASSIGNMENTS
LIVE OFFICE HOURS
KNOWLEDGE CHECKS
Case Studies
This online program provides real-world case studies and industry examples designed to help you understand the realities of executive compensation planning in today’s volatile business environment.
Enron
Explore the importance of a carefully calibrated executive compensation plan through the lens of Enron’s catastrophic failure.
McDonald's
Learn about executive compensation “clawbacks” — recovering money paid to a senior executive who fails to honor conditions of a contract — via this example from the fast-food giant.
Wells Fargo
Explore the effects of public perception on executive compensation and related board intervention.
Faculty
EY Professor of Accounting
Professor Armstrong’s research focuses on issues related to corporate governance, debt and executive compensation contracting, corporate valuation, and cost of capital. Profes...
Guest Speakers
Vice President of Human Resources, 10x Genomics
Allan McCall is an experienced human resources leader with deep expertise in total rewards strategies, operations, and analytics. His background includes partnerships with bus...
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Professor Kepler’s research relates to documenting and understanding the interrelated nature that firms’ contracts—both explicit and implicit—play in driving firms' financial ...
Professor of Financial Accounting, Head of Accounting Faculty Subject Group, & Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Cambridge Judge Business School
Professor Jagolinzer’s research interests include financial reporting, international accounting, corporate governance, executive compensation and incentives, and insider tradi...
Certificate
Upon successful completion of the program, you will earn a digital certificate of completion from the Wharton School.
Note: After successful completion of the online program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Wharton School.
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