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- As public companies continue to enrich their executives and employees through stock options, private companies have found several ways to keep up by offering their own equity-based or equity-like incentive compensation plans. When it comes to offering executives and employees a real equity stake in a privately held company, owners...
- White papers 1998-02-01
- The Optimal And Actual Use Of Economic Value Added In Incentive Compensation
- From the executive summary: ‘Executive compensation is increasingly sensitive to stock returns. However, even abnormal stock returns are highly volatile, and an optimal contract shields the agent from as much variability as possible. It is not surprising then that non-stock performance measures, such as earnings and other accounting measures are...
- White papers 2001-06-11
- New Carrots, Old Yardsticks?
- From the executive summary: ‘With stock options increasingly out of favor, cash bonuses are making a comeback. The size of bonuses is increasing exponentially as stock options fall. But, if the form of incentive compensation changes, the grounds for earning such pay may not be. And that could be a...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Just Give Us The Facts
- From the executive summary: ‘Although, corporate America's resistance to recognize intangibles in financial statements is to some extent warranted by the unpredictable nature of the assets and the difficulty of gauging their value. Companies should not refrain from disclosing more detailed information about intangibles. Even if companies are reluctant to...
- White papers 2001-02-07
- Implications For The Compensation Structure And Risk-Taking Incentives Of CEOs
- This paper investigates the effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX on the compensation structure and the risk-taking incentives of CEOs, as revealed by their research and development expenses and capital expenditures. It hypothesizes that firms will respond to the additional liability imposed by SOX on corporate executives by altering the...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionDonald Rubin Yes, thank you Terry. Just a couple of instructions for our phone participants. Operator instructions We are now ready for questions. Operator Our first question comes from Peter Appert with Piper Jaffray. Please go ahead. Peter Appert – Piper Jaffray Thank you, good morning. First question...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-27
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- Moody's Corp. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. We'll go to first to Peter Appert at Goldman Sachs. Peter Appert - Goldman Sachs Thank you, hey Ray can you give us any additional color on what this restructuring charge might look like in the fourth quarter in terms...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Boeing Co. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question... one moment. Our first question comes from Cai von Rumohr of Cowen & Co. Cai von Rumohr - Cowen & Co. Yes. If you would give us a little more detail the unit cost margin, looks like was kind...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- F5 Networks Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 9/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question from Samuel Wilson of JMP Securities. And your line is open. Samuel Wilson - JMP Securities Good afternoon, everyone. It's a big list, so I won't try and name all of you. But, just three very...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you sir. Today’s question-and-answer will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. And we will go first to Paul Westra of Cowen And Company. Paul Westra - Cowen And Company Hi, thanks. Good afternoon Jack Hartung - Chief Finance and Development Officer...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-30
- Gardner Denver, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session[Operator Instructions]. And we'll move to our first question from Amit Daryanani, RBC Capital. Amit Daryanani - RBC Capital Markets Thanks a lot. Congratulations on the quarter for one guys. When I look at the Fluid Transfer segment, orders are up 39%, could you just talk about how...
- Earnings calls 2008-04-24
- Executive Compensation: Why the Fed Should Steer Clear of Banker Pay
- The Fed is proposing to get involved in overseeing pay at the nation?s banks in order to reduce risk in the financial system. But executive pay isn?t really the right issue to focus on. Feinberg’s proposals to shift a portion of executive salaries into stock options that would...
- Articles 2009-10-06
- ADC Telecommunications, Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 10/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And your first question is from Simon Leopold of Morgan Keegan. Simon Leopold - Morgan Keegan & Co. Thanks, I wanted to get in a couple of clarifications first, one is just trying to come up with the pro forma earnings number...
- Earnings calls 2007-12-12
- Healthcare Roundup: Surgical Checklist Surges, Rockefeller Cues EHR Mandate, Health Plan Enrollment Drops, ASCs Suck Straw, and More
- Good start for safety measure â€" In January, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement announced that it was trying to get all U.S. hospitals to test a surgical checklist by April 1. The checklist for ORs and surgeons has been shown to reduce complications and mortality. Although only 622 hospitalsâ€"about 10...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Darling's war on banks
- Alistair Darling has declared war on the bonuses of bankers and investment bankers. The question that could determine the near term future of the City of London as a major financial centre is whether he will have any allies. The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer announced last night that, separate...
- News items 2009-12-09
- Why Pay More to Execs Who Fail? | BTalk Australia
- (13min 23) Around the world executive pay has become a contentious issue this year. It’s difficult to accept a high CEO salary from a bank that’s being bailed out with public money. It’s even harder to see a sizeable bonus being given to the head of a company that hasn’t...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Car-Mart Drives Easy in Tough Economic Times
- AutoNation and CarMax, two of the largest U.S. auto retailers, could learn from America's Car-Mart, which focuses on the "buy here/pay here" segment of the used car market. Contrary to what franchised auto dealerships are forecasting, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based chain continues to record higher sales and operating profits. For the...
- Blog posts 2008-12-15
- SEC, BofA Plead For Merrill Bonus Settlement
- By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp BAC and the top U.S. securities regulator sought to persuade a judge to approve their $33 million settlement of a civil lawsuit over the lack of disclosure of billions of dollars of bonuses at Merrill Lynch & Co. A...
- News items 2009-08-24
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