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Knowledge@Wharton	New Ways to Retain and Reward Employees (Hint: We're Not Talking Stock Options) A handful of technology companies are heading in alternative directions when it comes to giving employees incentives to stay and perform well.
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Stock Options: The End of the Affair? For whatever reasons, more and more companies seem to be backing off of their love affair with options.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Nanette Byrnes	Beyond Options However you slice it, the new mix will cost companies more
Knowledge@Wharton	Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages?
CFO July 1, 2004 Don Durfee	Better Carrots? Big changes are under way in long-term incentive compensation, a new survey finds. But they may not be big enough.
Inc. August 1, 2000 Bo Burlingham	The Boom in Employee Ownership More than 15% of the private-sector workforce is now covered by one ownership plan or another, and that figure is growing. It may get an additional boost from a new study on the effects of stock options...
CFO August 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed.
Knowledge@Wharton	How Employee Stock Options Can Undermine the Value of Ordinary Shares What effect do options have on the number of stock shares a company has in circulation? The answer can make a big difference when a company computes its earnings per share, and when investors calculate the critical price-to-earnings ratio.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2004 Bill Mann	The Best Stock Options Model Are there perfect ways to value stock options? No. But anything is better than this. What's the sign that the Financial Accounting Standards Board is thinking about requiring stock options to be expensed? Lots of trips to Washington by Silicon Valley executives, and pre-emptive bills in Congress. Certainly, someone up there recognizes that accounting is best left to accountants.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Bill Mann	Yes, Options Really Are an Expense The Financial Accounting Standards Board stares down the tech lobby and mandates that employee stock options must be expensed.
CFO May 1, 2004 Craig Schneider	Forget Black-Scholes? Why the traditional option-pricing model may not be the best way to value employee stock option grants.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Make the Most of Stock Options: The Basics Stock options can give employees of successful companies a huge incentive to work hard toward building shareholder value. Options can be a valuable part of compensation, but you have to manage them well.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Hof & Kerstetter	Earth To Silicon Valley: You've Lost This Battle If anyone thought tech executives might finally give up their long fight against counting employee stock options as an expense, a rally on June 24 quashed that notion. Here's why tech should end its fight against options expensing.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Louis Lavelle	Stock Options: The Fuzzy New Math In solving one problem by forcing companies to recognize that options have a cost, we've created something equally complex: Shareholders will have no way of knowing whether their companies are accurately estimating expenses or engaging in wishful thinking to burnish the bottom line.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Steve Hamm	Expense Options -- but Give Startups a Break Large companies can afford to expense options, but startups could find it harder to bring new innovations to market. Expensing would make it more difficult for startups to recruit, since they use the potential of a huge options payday to lure top talent.
Entrepreneur November 2002 C.J. Prince	There's No Hiding It All the cool companies are expensing their options. Can your business survive without that extra earnings padding?
Knowledge@Wharton	Hedging Their Risk: Creating a Market for Managerial Stock Options Given the recent volatility in the stock market and the amount of equity top managers often hold, it's not surprising that executives are taking steps to minimize their risk, say Wharton researchers...
The Motley Fool September 15, 2004 Bill Mann	Exhausting Every Option The International Employee Stock Option Coalition, a high tech industry lobbying group in Washington D.C., plays its latest gambit on trying to de-claw options expensing.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Steve Hamm	Chambers: Stock Options Inspire Innovation John T. Chambers, chief executive officer of networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., is an outspoken critic of upcoming accounting rules requiring companies to expense stock options. In an interview, Chambers explains his position:
CFO October 1, 2003	Letters to the Editor CFOs should quit whining... can nontraditional CFOs succeed?... disagreement over the options debate.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Bill Mann	Aligning Interests? Yeah, Right Cisco's employees apparently can't sell their stock options fast enough. Suits the company just fine.
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 Mark Gimein	The Bottom Line On Options Who are the winners in the battle over expensing? Just look in the corner office. The outsize pay packages that options mania brought about still remain.
Fast Company February 2003 Keith H. Hammonds	Are We Out of Options? They were the currency of the American dream. Now they are worthless paper -- a symbol of CEO greed. What went wrong with stock options? Where do companies go from here? Our only option: Visit one of the world's leading authorities on employee ownership.
The Motley Fool June 25, 2004 Bill Mann	Valley's Intellectual Bankruptcy Yesterday, the Financial Accounting Standards Board held a contentious roundtable in Palo Alto, Calif., to discuss FASB's standing proposal to require American companies to treat stock options granted to employees as an expense.
CFO May 1, 2003 Kris Frieswick	Better Options Disillusioned investors are demanding stronger links between executive pay and long-term performance.
Knowledge@Wharton	One Way to Settle the Controversy over Stock Options: Eliminate Them Some Wharton professors question this approach, warning that abandoning stock options altogether could ultimately hurt a company's performance. They say that despite recent allegations of abuse, stock options remain a valuable way to get managers to perform at their peak level.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2004 Bill Mann	Stock Options: Pause to Reload The FASB delays stock option expensing by six months. That's just more time for Big Tech to lobby.
Entrepreneur December 2003 Julie Monahan	No Options The big guys may be letting stock options go, but should you?
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Roy Mark	House Votes to Block Stock Option Expensing The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation supported by the tech industry to pre-empt a proposed federal accounting regulation calling for corporations to deduct the cost of all employee stock options from their profits.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Coalition of the Greedy CEOs are fighting to keep the stock options gravy train rolling at shareholders' expense. Three cheers for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which recently released its proposal to require companies to expense stock options.
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Louis Lavelle	Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration?
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004	How Expensive Will Expensing Options Be? A talk with accounting expert Pat McConnell on the impact of stock options on earnings
The Motley Fool July 22, 2004 Bill Mann	House Meddles in FASB Matters The House of Representatives moves to block the independence of America's top accountants.
CFO August 1, 2003 Craig Schneider	Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2004 Paul Elliott	An Investor's Worst Enemy As an investor, few things assure you'll go hungry like a board of directors cutting the pie into more and more pieces and handing them out. Excessive share dilution is precisely that.
Knowledge@Wharton	Will Expensing Stock Options Create New Problems? Even as politicians and the media vilify stock options, experts from Wharton and elsewhere are asking if the blame is being misdirected, and if the solutions being adopted might bring about new problems.
HBS Working Knowledge October 25, 2006 Desai & Margolis	Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts, where the practice of backdating options for top executives is only part of the problem.
CFO December 1, 2006 Don Durfee	Pay Daze Linking pay to performance is harder than it looks. Companies that consider linking equity awards to performance should prepare to dig in for deeper computations of the compensation's fair value.
Bio-IT World November 14, 2003 Michael Greeley	Show You the Money Venture capitalists need to balance two, at times conflicting, parameters when considering compensation for the executives at biotech companies in their portfolios: cash and long-term equity incentives.
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005	Too Many Ways To Expense Options Expensing stock options was supposed to provide a clear, consistent picture of earnings that can be compared across companies and industries. But that goal may now be fading.
The Motley Fool September 3, 2004 Chris Mallon	Optional No Longer Expense-free option grants are a thing of the past, thanks to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new rule.
Inc. March 2005 Darren Dahl	FASB Limits Stock Options What new stock option rules mean for you. If you hand out stock options to employees, a controversial ruling from the Financial Accounting Standards Board might give you pause.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate: Stock Option Expensing Likely Tech industry claims new accounting rules will hurt profits and cripple employee incentives.
CFO October 1, 2004 Tim Reason	Changing Fortunes: The 2004 Compensation Survey To be sure, stock options are not going away. But with those options tainted, pay packages grow more diverse -- and smaller.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2004 Bill Mann	FASB: Ready to Rumble The Financial Accounting Standards Board announces it intends to require companies to expense stock options.
Knowledge@Wharton May 21, 2003	Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling?
Inc. April 2005 Michael Sisk	Taking Stock Stock options are about to get pricier, thanks to a new regulation passed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Fortunately, options are not the only way to dole out equity. Here are four other strategies for small businesses to consider.
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Louis Lavelle	Time To Start Weighing The Options New Financial Accounting Standards Board rules make stock options an expense. How will companies cope?
Entrepreneur June 2005 Crystal Detamore-Rodman	Taking Stock Minimize the costs of new stock-option expensing rules.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Stock Options Hurt U.S. Competitiveness The failure to expense stock options is causing distortions and inefficiencies in U.S. labor and capital markets.