For a number of student projects, they are looking for compensation of executives and members of the board of directors. This information can be found on a number of our databases–historically on the Corporate Library, and searching proxies on Mergent, Edgar Online I-Metrix. Thomson Research, and the SEC site.
Audit Analytics is also a very good source for this information. You can search by public company name or ticker symbol. Under the Governance and Compensation tabs, you can locate the names, ages, positions of executives and board members, committees on which they serve, any other board(s) they serve on, and their compensation for attending board meetings (as well as their attendance record at such meetings). The source of the information is provided, such as the proxy filing, or an 8-K filing.
Changes in executives and board members are also indicated, with the source of the information, and the reason for the change. For example, this week I did a workshop in which I showed the students AEO, whose ceo recently announced his retirement and the head of the audit committee had submitted his resignation citing “too many commitments.”