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. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:30:51 +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 Holding Power: S&P 500 Snapshot – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Holding Power: S&P 500 Snapshot https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/10/19/holding-power-sp-500-snapshot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holding-power-sp-500-snapshot https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/10/19/holding-power-sp-500-snapshot/#respond Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:30:53 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=177107?d=20251017165820EDT Posted by Andrew Lash and Shashwat Singh, FW Cook, on Sunday, October 19, 2025
Editor's Note:

Andrew Lash and Shashwat Singh are Consultants at FW Cook. This post is based on their FW Cook memorandum.

Background

We reviewed broad-market data using S&P 500 executives to support preliminary assessments of executive Holding Power (aka retention glue). Despite a cooldown in the broader labor force, Compensation Committees are well served to understand the depth of their retention hooks on key executives, for whom the talent market remains fluid.

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