The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:20:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Making Sense of Executive Compensation – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Making Sense of Executive Compensation https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/01/08/making-sense-of-executive-compensation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-sense-of-executive-compensation https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/01/08/making-sense-of-executive-compensation/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:39:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=14489?d=20150106101328EST Posted by Scott Hirst, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Saturday, January 8, 2011
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Simone M. Sepe, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona College of Law.

In the attempt of promoting financial stability and better risk-management practices, the Dodd-Frank Act has introduced a number of significant executive compensation rules affecting all public U.S. companies. In my paper, Making Sense of Executive Compensation, which was recently made publicly available on SSRN and is forthcoming in the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law,  I argue that the Congress has failed to accurately answer three basic questions in enacting the new legislation:

  • (i) what are the key problems that plague executive compensation,
  • (ii) what is the possible solution, and
  • (iii) what is the role of regulation in implementing the solution?

Addressing these questions, I come to three conclusions.

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