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. Sun, 17 May 2026 11:30:53 +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 2011-2012 ISS Policy Survey – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 2011-2012 ISS Policy Survey https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/11/03/2011-2012-iss-policy-survey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2011-2012-iss-policy-survey https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/11/03/2011-2012-iss-policy-survey/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:35:05 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=22649?d=20111103093505EDT Editor’s Note: Carol Bowie is Head of Compensation Research Development at Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. This post is based on the key findings of the complete ISS Policy Survey, available here.

Top Governance Issues

Executive compensation continues to be an American issue for a second straight year. Only for North America, a majority of both investor (60 percent) and issuer respondents (61 percent) cite the perennial issue of executive compensation as one of the top three governance topics for the coming year, similar to last year’s survey results.

On a global basis, investor respondents focused on board independence. Across every region, board independence was identified among the three most important governance topics by approximately 40 percent of investor respondents.

Issuers focus on risk oversight in North America and Europe. For issuers, the second most commonly cited topic in North America was risk oversight. In Europe, risk oversight was commonly cited along with board competence.

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