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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. Similarly, references to 2023, 2022 and 2019 publication years correspond to 2022, 2021 and 2018 compensation practices, respectively.

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ESG Task Force Brings First Case

Harvard Corporate Governance

a publicly traded (NYSE) Brazilian mining company and one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, charging that it made “false and misleading claims about the safety of its dams prior to the January 2019 collapse of its Brumadinho dam. debt markets.

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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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Back to Earth or Temporary Setback? Revisiting the FANGAM Stocks

Musings on Markets

In the midst of all the action, to no one's surprise, have been six stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Apple and Microsoft or FANGAM) that have largely driven US equities for the last decade, roiling the market with their most recent earnings reports. to 14.9%.

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Formula 1 in Las Vegas: The Race That Hopes You Don’t Sleep

Value Scope

has seen a significant increase since the debut of the Netflix series “Drive to Survive” in 2019. It’s current market capitalization is approximately $15 billion. By comparison, U.S. viewership averaged just over 1 million. F1 interest in the U.S. Average U.S. million in 2022. billion in 2016 by Liberty Media.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

On the alternative energy front, as money has flowed into these companies, there has been a surge in enterprise value (equity and net debt) and market capitalization (equity value); I report both because impact investing can also take the form of green bonds, or debt, at these companies.

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Exxon Mobil Reportedly Nearing $60B Megadeal To Buy Pioneer Natural Resources

Benzinga

The purchase of Pioneer, which has a market capitalization of around $50 billion, could be Exxon’s most significant deal since its 1999 merger with Mobil. oil industry’s most recent significant takeover — Occidental Petroleum’s 2019 acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum for about $38 billion.