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2024 Top 250 Report

Harvard Corporate Governance

INTRODUCTION This Top 250 Report details executive long-term incentive practices at the 250 largest companies by market capitalization, with special focus on trends over the last five years. This post is based on an FW Cook memorandum by Ms. Shatanof, James Lutz , and Voytek Sokolowski.

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2024 Aggregate Share-Based Compensation

Harvard Corporate Governance

Fair value transfer is the aggregate grant date fair value of all long-term incentive awards granted during a given year as a percentage of company market capitalization value at grant and as a percent of revenue. Overhang, measured based on potential share dilution as well as the fair value of outstanding grants.

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Smart money? Retail investors, intrinsic investors, and the Magnificent Seven

Mckinsey and Company

Retail investors are investing more of their capital in companies that have the highest market capitalizations. Intrinsic investors are taking a different approach.

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Murder on the City Express – Who is Killing the London Stock Exchange’s Equity Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

peers on at least one significant measure – the market capitalization to Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) ratio. exchanges have seen a consistent rise in the aggregate market capitalization to GDP ratio since at least 2017, the equivalent metric for the U.K. As we underscored in a previous paper , while the U.S.

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2024 Top 250 Annual Incentive Plan Report

Harvard Corporate Governance

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our 2024 Annual Incentive Plan Report provides a comprehensive review of the annual incentive plans of the top 250 largest companies in the S&P 500 by market capitalization.

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2024 Corporate Governance and Incentive Design Survey

Harvard Corporate Governance

The Survey summarizes market practices at 200 large publicly traded companies across all industries (referred to herein as the “Meridian 200”). These companies have median revenues and market capitalizations of $24.8B and $41.0B, respectively, making them a representative sample of the S&P 500.

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The Venture Corporation

Harvard Corporate Governance

Firms that launched as venture-backed startups dominate US capital markets in terms of market capitalization and proportional weight of leading market indexes, and significantly contribute to US job creation. In some nations, startups are also significant contributors to the economy.