Highlights from the 2012 NACD Spring Forum.

How Newell Rubbermaid found its next CEO sitting right in the boardroom.

NACD President and CEO Kenneth Daly calls for questions regarding the future of directorship.

Directors must conduct their oversight role with a healthy degree of skepticism.

Why directors should write an annual letter to shareholders.

Patricia F. Russo and Robin A. Ferracone discuss current issues facing compensation committee members.

Boards must diligently monitor their organization's human capital strategy and effectiveness.

Skin-in-the-game warrants can help align the interests of executives and shareholders.

Steven Hall & Partners' Nora McCord presents her predictions for the future of executive compensation.

Compensation committees must reframe the discussion on long-term incentive plans to effectively represent their values to shareholders.

Eight leading attorneys offer insight and advice on communications issues from M&As and IPOs to data loss and theft.

New Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins plans to designate a portion of employee's compensation to be decided based on whether they are good citizens.

(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Financial Officer Ken Goldman will receive up to $18 million in salary, bonuses, restricted stock and stock options over the next four years, according to a regulatory filing. Goldman will get $1.1 million in salary and bonu...

Companies that lengthened compensation disclosures following failed say-on-pay votes did not benefit from the additional words.

Ontario is proposing an executive compensation cap, at no more than twice the Premier's annual salary of C$418,000, and a two-year pay freeze for managers.

Companies are increasingly producing alternative measures of their top executives' pay, with at least 228 companies mentioning "realizable" or "realized" compensation in proxy materials this year.

TiVo settled its pending patent litigation with Verizon via an agreement where Verizon will pay TiVo $250.4 million through July 2018.

CEOs cannot readily transfer their skills from one company to the other, a study from Charles M. Elson and Craig K. Ferrere noted, rejecting the idea that CEO compensation must be extremely large to retain executives.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, saw the value of his compensation take a sizable jump in its last fiscal year. He received stock options valued at $96 million during fiscal 2012, which ended in May. That's up from $78 million the year before. Oracle's boa...