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Mega Grants: Why Would a Board Approve Nine-Figure CEO Pay?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Mega grants are large, one-time equity awards with long vesting periods (up to 10 years) granted in lieu of or in addition to annual awards with the intended purpose of providing significant incentive to achieve long-term targets. We recently published a paper on SSRN (“Mega Grants: Why Would A Board Approve Nine-Figure CEO Pay?”)

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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.

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P10 Announces Agreement to Acquire Western Technology Investment, Market Leader in Venture Debt

Benzinga

Many leading publicly traded technology companies, representing over $1 trillion in aggregate market capitalization, count WTI as an early lender and partner. As a pioneer in venture debt, WTI has deployed $7.8 billion in loan commitments across more than 1,400 venture-backed companies since its founding in 1980.

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Interest Rates, Earning Growth and Equity Value: Investment Implications

Musings on Markets

The first quarter of 2021 has been, for the most part, a good time for equity markets, but there have been surprises. The arrival of the COVID in February 2020, and the ensuing market meltdown, causing treasury rates to plummet across the spectrum, with three-month T.bill rates dropping from 1.5%

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The Value of X

Value Scope

The Value of X X, formerly Twitter, is now valued at $19 billion, according to the company’s employee equity compensation plan. Blackberry, the once dominant player in the smartphone market, failed to adapt to the evolution of touchscreen technology and app ecosystem in favor of physical keyboards and its web browser.

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How to choose Comparable Companies

Valutico

Comparable companies are companies that operate in the same industry or market and have similar financial metrics, such as revenue, earnings, and market capitalization. Selecting Peer Companies Based on Size Size and market capitalization are important criteria in selecting comparable companies.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

The Market Reaction As the rhetoric of war has heated up in the last few months, markets were wary about the possibility of war, but as Russian troops have advanced into the Ukraine, that wariness has turned to sell off across markets. As Russian equities have imploded, the ripple effects again are being felt across the globe.

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