# Professor David Yermack discusses ComScore's executive compensation

1 Faculty News July 12, 2016 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://www.wsj.com/articles/beware-the-squishy-math-of-comscores-pay-plan-1468365539) -- "ComScore’s requirement that the average stock price exceed the target over a 30-day period is a tougher standard than at many companies where stock is granted based on a single day’s price, according to [David L. Yermack](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack), a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business who studies executive compensation."

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