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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.   |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 29, 2003 |
Are Stock Options In Your Future? Given the recent turmoil surrounding stock options -- including well-publicized abuses of executive stock options, the depressed market, and anticipated new rules on the expensing of options -- has this once-popular form of compensation lost its appeal? |
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. |
| 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. |
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... |
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 |
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
May 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
Better Options Disillusioned investors are demanding stronger links between executive pay and long-term performance. |
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. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Facing the Bear: The 2002 Compensation Survey With stock options under scrutiny, companies are once again seeking the elusive link between pay and performance. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2004
Lavelle & Arndt |
Living Large In The Corner Office CEOs are raking it in again, even as boards keep a closer eye on performance. |
Knowledge@Wharton
Siegel, Metrick & Gompers |
A Simple Solution to Stock Market Woes: Kill the Corporate Dividend Tax The authors argue that a simple solution to restoring investor confidence while boosting economic growth would be to eliminate one of the most detrimental taxes in the U.S. economy -- the corporate dividend tax. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2002
Scott Rosenberg |
When good options turn bad Sure, let's punish stock-option-scamming CEOs and tighten up options accounting. But when options benefit everyday employees, they're worth defending. |
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. |
CFO
November 1, 2003
David M. Katz |
The Price They're Paid Even without stock options, top finance chiefs are changing in hefty pay packages. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2005
John S. McClenahen |
CEO Pay: The New Rules For CEOs and other senior executives in manufacturing, performance-related bonuses are up and performance-tied long-term incentives are more common. But will they make for better management decisions? That's not yet clear. |
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. |
| 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 30, 2005
Richard Gibbons |
Executive Compensation Evolves Why Omnicare's restricted stock compensation may become the standard. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
CFO
August 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed. |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
The CEOs' Gravy Train May Be Drying Up Finally, boards are reining in executive pay and tying it more to performance. |
CFO
Andrew Osterland |
Opting for Stock Options Multinationals are still choosing to offer options. They just need to be tailored to local tastes... |
Entrepreneur
December 2003
Joan Szabo |
For a Limited Time Want to take advantage of the cut in dividend taxes? You'll need to strike while the iron's hot. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
Executive Pay Top CEO paychecks in 2003 were, as usual, off-the-charts amazing. But the pace of overall raises for execs slowed considerably |
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. |
CFO
March 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Skin in the Game Why, on the whole, CFOs should buy more of their companies' stock. |
The Motley Fool
July 16, 2010
Buck Hartzell |
Beware of Empire-Building Leaders Susquehanna Bancshares is a once-proud community bank from Lititz, Pa., that was led astray. |
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
April 18, 2005
Louis Lavelle |
A Payday For Performance Compensation is less outrageous this year, except for CEOs who delivered. Our survey of 367 CEO pay packages showed that: Total CEO pay was up smartly, to an average $9.6 million... CEO raises and total pay once again dwarfed those of the average worker... etc. |
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 |
Entrepreneur
December 2003
Julie Monahan |
No Options The big guys may be letting stock options go, but should you? |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration? |
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
March 25, 2010
Silver-Greenberg et al. |
CEO Pay Drops, but...Cash Is King An exclusive first look at the 2009 compensation of chief executives at 81 big companies |
CFO
November 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Pay Up With finance talent in high demand, companies are boosting compensation -- and making some demands of their own. |
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? |
| 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... |
U.S. Banker
November 2005 |
Executive Compensation & The Boardroom Dilemma Investors shouldn't have to sift through every number on a proxy statement to determine total executive compensation. Now the SEC wants all payouts and perks -- including costs for corporate jets and housing -- out in plainer view. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Ralph Casale |
Dueling Fools: Dividends Investing is generally fraught with future promise. Dividends can be an island of stability in a turbulent market, helping investors achieve long-term outsized gains. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Abundant Options in Alternative Compensation While nearly every investor has heard of stock options, few are likely aware of their close cousins, restricted shares and stock appreciation rights. Even if investors have heard of them, fewer still probably understand how they work. |
| 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. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 4, 2003 |
Bush's Dividend Tax Cut: Glass Half Empty or Half Full? The final tax-cut bill the president signed into law at the end of May did not eliminate dividend taxes, but reduced the dividend tax to 15%, from a high of 38.6%, for investors in the top tax bracket. Is that enough to provide the benefits advocates had predicted? |
Entrepreneur
December 2006
C.J. Prince |
Taking Stock Have stock options lost their sparkle? Maybe - but this compensation tool can still be useful if you know how to do it right. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Show Me the Money, Steve! It's time for Apple to pay a dividend. |
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
June 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
New Carrots, Old Yardsticks? Cash is back in incentive compensation for executives, but companies are struggling to set the right performance targets. |
