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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
- Accounting Change Could Curb Stock Buyback Derivatives
- From the executive summary: ‘Companies use derivatives such as forward share repurchases or writing put options on their own stock for a variety of tax and hedging purposes during stock buybacks or employee stock option programs. Derivatives are not the biggest profit-generating product of investment banks, but are still a...
- White papers 2001-05-31
- Individual Stock-Option Prices and Credit Spreads
- This paper introduces measures of volatility and skewness that are based on individual stock options to explain credit spreads on corporate bonds. Implied volatilities of individual options are shown to contain important information for credit spreads and improve on both implied volatilities of index options when explaining the cross-sectional and...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Windows Into Valuation
- From the executive summary: ‘Current option-accounting rules allow companies to use either market price or models. However, historically, market prices have not been available, because stock options have not been transferable. But, some observers think certain company's move may presage the development of a real market.' The paper examines the...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- The Price They're Paid
- From the executive summary: ‘Stock options, of course, still have their supporters, especially among executives at start-ups and technology companies. At such outfits, the end of option grants would hurt rank-and-file employees more than it would senior executives. If employers start issuing restricted stock rather than options to regular workers,...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Bonus Babies: The Best-Paid CFOs
- From the executive summary: ‘When it comes to compensating top CFOs, the game has changed, but the players have not. But, if Federal Accounting Standards Board does require corporations to expense stock-option grants, CFOs at all publicly traded companies will be charged with calculating the worth of those options. And,...
- White papers 2003-09-05
- Down Market, Big Upside
- From the executive summary: ‘The first issue when implementing an stock options program is to determine how they are to be granted and exercised. Equity-based incentive programs have two fundamental objectives: to align the interests of managers with shareholders and to pay executives based on how well they perform. In...
- White papers 2002-02-05
- Changing Fortunes: The 2004 Compensation Survey
- From the executive summary: ‘The endgame in the decade-long debate over stock options is finally playing out. The Financial Accounting Standards Board has an expensing requirement ready to go, although it may delay implementation. The International Accounting Standards Board's standard on expensing goes into effect. And, while efforts to derail...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Stock Options: No Ifs, Calls, Or Puts
- From the executive summary: ‘With stock option grants increasingly seen as a magic elixir for motivating employees, keeping the cost from hurting shareholders has required more and more financial alchemy. As they buy shares in the open market to soak up the dilution from option grants, more and more companies...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Better Carrots?
- From the executive summary: ‘The Financial Accounting Standards Board finally succeeds in the expensing of at least some employee stock options. Although, they agree on little else, advocates and opponents of expensing do agree on one thing: if companies have to expense options, most will use fewer of them. In...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Riding The Bull
- From the executive summary: ‘The use of stock options has been rising along with stock prices since the early 1990s, but has widened beyond top management during the past few years. And not surprisingly, Internet CFOs get the highest proportion of their pay in the form of options and other...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- 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
- Buybacks Or Giveaways?
- From the executive summary: ‘What a lot of companies did with their cash was buy back equity, then funnel the shares into generous Employee Stock Option Plans ESOPs. The theory behind all the repurchasing aligning workers' interests with that of shareholders would spur productivity and performance. But in reality, ESOP-driven...
- White papers 2002-09-20
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