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 The 2011 U.S. Director Compensation and Board Practices Report – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 The 2011 U.S. Director Compensation and Board Practices Report https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/11/11/the-2011-u-s-director-compensation-and-board-practices-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-2011-u-s-director-compensation-and-board-practices-report https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/11/11/the-2011-u-s-director-compensation-and-board-practices-report/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:05:35 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=23149?d=20150113154210EST Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, on Friday, November 11, 2011
Editor's Note:

Matteo Tonello is Managing Director of Corporate Leadership at The Conference Board, Inc. This post relates to a study of U.S. public company board practices led by Dr. Tonello; Frank Hatheway, the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of NASDAQ OMX; and Scott Cutler, Executive Vice President, Co-Head US Listings & Cash Execution, NYSE Euronext. For details regarding how to obtain a copy of the report, contact matteo.tonello@conference-board.org.

The Conference Board, NASDAQ OMX and NYSE Euronext jointly released The 2011 U.S. Director Compensation and Board Practices Report, a benchmarking tool with more than 120 corporate governance data points searchable by company size (measurable by revenue and asset value) and industrial sectors.

The report is based on a survey of public companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance, the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and the Shareholder Forum also endorsed the survey by distributing it to their members and readers.

The Conference Board’s annual benchmark series on director compensation was first released in 1939. In the last decade, the database has been expanded to report on a wide array of governance practices, documenting a steady transformation in the role of public companies’ boards and underscoring the increasing importance of directors’ monitoring responsibilities and the growing influence of shareholders.

The following are the major findings from the 2011 edition of the study.

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