March 2014 (Revised September 2019)
Teaching Note
HBS Case Collection

Say on Pay: Qualcomm, Inc. Shareholders Vote 'Maybe'

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Charles C.Y. Wang

Format:Print
| Language:English
| Pages:19

Abstract

This case centers around Qualcomm shareholders' 2012 Say-on-Pay vote and the dispute between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and justified by benchmarking to aspirational peers? Or was management correct that its CEO's pay is warranted by Qualcomm's recent firm performance?

Keywords

ISS; Proxy Advisor; Investor Communication; Investor Relations; Peers; Say-on-Pay; Benchmarking; Peer Group; Compensation Committee; Board Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations

Citation

Srinivasan, Suraj, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Say on Pay: Qualcomm, Inc. Shareholders Vote 'Maybe'." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-065, March 2014. (Revised September 2019.)