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- Hubris Reaches New Highs
- It had seemed that hubristic executives were, like, so 1990s. Maybe not. Consider high-flying executive Henry T. Nicholas III, former Broadcom Corp. CEO, who was already in trouble for allegedly backdating stock options. Now a federal court in Santa Ana, Calf., has unsealed indictments against Nicholas accusing...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- The CEO Pay Gap Widens
- Talk about pay inequities. If you are a CEO at a small to middle-sized firm you probably got a puny 2 percent pay raise last year. Yet if you were a big shot at a Standard & Poors 500 firm, you fared a heck of a lot...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Top 10 Business Stories of 2007 and What We Had to Say
- We're going to see a lot of 2007 wrap-up articles and blogs over the next couple of weeks (like our recently posted Best Productivity Tips of 2007) not to mention predictions for 2008. It's what you do in December, and we embrace it. BusinessWeek churned out a list of the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- The Unintended Consequences of Stock Options
- Stock options are designed to encourage executives to focus on the needs of the shareholder. Giving the CEO a stake in the company's market performance sounds like an elegant and effective way to make sure his or her attention is in the right place. But a study from management professors...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Take-Two, AT&T, Barnes & Noble, and Retail Theft
- The SEC opened an investigation yesterday into Take-Two Interactive Software, maker of the "Grand Theft Auto" video game series, over its past stock-option grants practices. In February, Take-Two's CEO pled guilty to criminal charges over backdating options, and became the first ex-CEO to do so. Take-Two said reviews of its...
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Tribune, Xerox, KKR, and Starwood Hotels
- The Tribune Co. said today it accepted real estate magnate Sam Zell's bid to take the company private, and it plans to sell the Chicago Cubs after the 2007 baseball season. The deal values Tribune, publisher of Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, at around $8.2 billion and is structured...
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- BNET Dispatch: March 19, 2007
- Airbus' A380 superjumbo jet, the world's largest passenger plane, made its U.S. debut today, as two of the jets landed in New York and Los Angeles. Airbus designed the aircraft to challenge Boeing's command in the large plane market. But due to several delays, Airbus has suffered billion dollars of...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- BNET Dispatch: March 5, 2007
- With daylights savings time starting three weeks early this year, companies are scrambling to reset their hardware and software systems to sync up with the time change. The new changes are causing IT headaches reminiscent of the Y2K bug in 2000, and may impact data-centers, desktop computers, and...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- SEC Watch: New DirecTV CEO Could Make $35.5 Million (And Then Some)
- Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during his three-year contract, according to an SEC filing. His base salary is $1.5 million a year with up to 200 percent bonus based on...
- External links 2009-11-20
- Canada's New Tax Rules Raise Stock Of Employee Options
- The 2000 federal budget proposed significant tax break for employees who exercise stock options in shares of qualifying public companies, but until now, the precise mechanics of the proposals had not been released. Recently issued draft legislation fills in the details of the incentive and offers greater certainty for employees...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Managerial Success
- The newest formula for managerial success appears to be a company-wide, top-to-bottom incentive program that's a combination of five familiar benefit and management practices. ESOPs, pay-for-performance and variable pay open-book management and stock options are part of the package. With this new philosophy, larger companies are learning from their smaller...
- White papers 1997-12-01
- Economic Performance
- Is employee stock ownership associated with better or worse corporate performance? Theories on this question are mixed, with predictions of both positive and negative effects. This study examines public companies where employees are major stakeholders through broadly based employee stock ownership, and compares the performance of these companies with other...
- White papers 1997-07-01
- Decisions Affecting Stock Plans
- The Department of Labor DOL recently released an advisory opinion with respect to non-exempt employees, stating that the actual gain from a stock option is to be included in an employee's wage base and overtime pay must be adjusted accordingly. Overtime for these employees is calculated as a multiple of...
- White papers 2000-02-01
- Re-engineering For Effectiveness
- In 1985, Reflexite began to change from a traditional company to an employee-owned company. Things went well for the company, and the ESOP strategy worked. In 6 years, business expanded about 30 percent per year. But in the spring of 1991, the backlog began to fall rapidly. By late May,...
- White papers 1997-07-01
- S Corporation ESOPs
- Congress has now made it practical for Employee Stock Ownership Plans ESOPs to become owners of S Corporation stock. Combining ESOP tax advantages with the single-tax structure of an S Corporation should produce interesting planning opportunities for a number of closely held businesses. Either the value of the ESOP's stock...
- White papers 1997-10-01
- Stock Option Repricing
- Repricings of stock options and re-examinations of change in control protection programs are again in vogue. If the declining stock market persists, some boards and executives will conclude that their stock option programs are no longer effective to motivate and retain employees. Other companies now feel they are bigger targets...
- White papers 1999-01-01
- Worker Capitalists?
- According to surveys, about 20 percent of U.S. adults now report owning stock in the company for which they work. And the most recent Labor Department data show that employee retirement plans, including employee stock ownership plans ESOPs and defined-contribution pension plans, held nearly $314 billion in employer stock at...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- Connor Formed Metal Products
- The company makes annual contributions to every employee's ESOP account based on compensation. The ESOP account vests over seven years. The average account balance for a manufacturing worker who has been with the company since the ESOP was started in 1985. One problem that Connor faces, as a result of...
- Case studies 1997-07-01
- Pay For Performance
- Bill Layson, a Senior Vice President and Director at Science Applications International Corporation SAIC, described his experiences as the Chairman of the company's Incentives Committee during most of the 24-year history of the $1.5 billion high tech employee-owned company. SAIC also has a stock bonus program, usually awarded on a...
- White papers 1997-07-01
- National Center For Employee Ownership
- The National Center for Employee Ownership is widely considered to be the leading authority in employee ownership in the U.S. and the world. Established in 1981 as a non-profit information and membership organization, it now has over 1800 members, including companies, professionals, unions, government officials, academics, and interested individuals. They...
- White papers 1997-07-01
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