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Topic: Stock Options

  
HUMAN RESOURCES   |  9 comments

Overthrowing Overtime

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 6, 2005 at 1:22 PM

This March, Linda Tischler posted an FC Now entry about a controversy over overtime at Electronic Arts. Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the company has agreed to settle the lawsuit. (Subscription required.) So doing, EA ...READ»

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BUSINESSWEEK   |  Comment

If You're Not Furious Over the Bank Bailout, Read This

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 7:06 PM

Provisioned within the stimulus bill is a salary cap for executives of any bank that receives federal money through the TARP program. Instead of taking home millions, the top brass will be limited to $500,000 in total annual pay. ...READ»

MARKETING   |  1 comment

Apple and the Media

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri May 11, 2007 at 1:43 PM

At Apple's shareholder meeting, the scandal over stock options backdating came up and Steve Jobs reiterated his cooperation with the SEC. It surprised me that the stock issue came up again. I thought Apple's story in the media had ...READ»

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Are We Out of Options?

BY Keith H. Hammonds
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

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.READ»

ETHICS   |  Comment

"Everybody Else Is Doing It"


Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 1:16 PM

Those may be the five most dangerous words in business, wrote Warren Buffet in a September 27 memo to his top managers at Berkshire Hathaway. According to an article today in The Financial Times, the billionaire investment guru is ...READ»

FINANCE + INVESTING   |  Comment

Out of Stock (Options)

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jun 18, 2004 at 12:02 PM

Next week in Silicon Valley, high-tech workers will gather to protest a renewed effort on the part of the Financial Accounting Standard Board to allow companies to expense employee stock options. Shades of Fast Company's April ...READ»

ENTERTAINMENT   |  Comment

CEOs in the Slammer

BY Angus Loten
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:25 AM

This year, a record number of CEOs were ousted. Some were fired, some retired, and some even died. But a great number were also sent to prison, like the CEOs of Enron and WorldCom. What happens to company leaders when they run roughshod over their corporations?READ»

ETHICS   |  4 comments

Layoff Payoffs

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 97
Thu Aug 28, 2003 at 6:25 PM

The Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy released their 10th annual CEO compensation survey earlier this week. Among the key findings in "Executive Excess 2003: CEOs Win, Workers and Taxpayers Lose": CEOs were ...READ»

FINANCE + INVESTING   |  2 comments

The Google Stock Exchange


Relevancy Score: 93
Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 6:23 PM

A few years ago, back when shares were a modest $200 a pop, I was debating whether or not to buy stock in Google. A friend encouraged me to do it, challenging my hesitation by asking, "Who can stop them?" The answer, as it turned ...READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS   |  Comment

In Today's Papers

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 90
Thu Sep 7, 2006 at 1:11 PM

What's worth reading: RIM launches multimedia BlackBerry "Research in Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of the iconic BlackBerry mobile e-mail device beloved by politicians, business leaders and celebrities, will launch its first ...READ»

PERSONAL BRANDS   |  Comment

How to Get a Piece of the Action

BY Eric Matson
Relevancy Score: 89
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:41 PM

What's the difference between a star athlete and you? These days, less and less. Here's how to negotiate for the deal you deserve. (We'll take our 10%.)READ»

ONLINE BUSINESS   |  Comment

II. Documents and Jargon of the New Economy

BY Gregory J. Pleshaw
Relevancy Score: 83
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:33 AM

The new economy barters, trades, and produces one integral asset more than any other: intellectual property. This term, once reserved for music- and film-industry types, is reshaping the work environment for computer engineers, ...READ»

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BACKDATING   |  Comment

Should RIM's CEOs Go to Jail?

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 73
Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM

This week four of RIM's [RIMM] top executives settled options backdating cases with the SEC and the OSC, Canada's securities regulation agency. The Ontario-based cronies have agreed to pay almost $100 million CN in penalties, costs ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Mentor-centives

BY Cheryl Dahle
Relevancy Score: 69
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:56 PM

How Netcentives incorporates its mentorship program.READ»

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE   |  Comment

"I No Longer Want to Work for Money"

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 68
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:16 AM

From a letter sent November 2 by Whole Foods Markets CEO John Mackey to his employees. On the same day, the grocery chain warned that sales growth would slow in the year ahead. Its stock dropped 23% on the news.READ»

ONLINE BUSINESS   |  3 comments

Beginner's Luck

BY Alex Markels
Relevancy Score: 63
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:14 AM

In the Internet casino, the name of the game is IPO, and the players are looking to improve their odds. Meet five high rollers who think that their systems will help them hit the jackpot.READ»

BUSINESS ETHICS   |  Comment

An ethical analysis of CEO compensation

BY Tomas Car
Relevancy Score: 62
Fri Nov 28, 2008 at 11:02 AM

The current financial crisis is shaping today’s world substantially by questioning sustainability of existing market and economic principles. The supposedly free markets are suddenly in desperate need of government bailouts where ...READ»

EMPLOYEE RETENTION   |  Comment

She's Helping Yahoo Act Normal

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 49
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:40 AM

First there was the dream: Everybody gets to be a millionaire! Then there was the nightmare: Will I have a job? Now there's a back-to-basics search for clarity: What's the new deal between Yahoo and its people? Libby Sartain, who joined the Internet standard-bearer from Southwest Airlines, is offering some answers.READ»

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT   |  Comment

Measuring management and leadership

BY Robert Heller
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Oct 8, 2008 at 7:01 PM

Today’s super-bosses get salaries, of course, and very large ones at that; but they also receive ‘performance-related’ bonuses of great size, plus even more magnificent stock options and other wonderful rewards, from massive ...READ»

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All the President's Men ... Are Going Dotcom

BY Vanessa Blum
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:33 AM

Talent from all around the Beltway is driving toward Washington's high-tech industry.READ»

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The Spytrain Manifesto

BY The Spy
Relevancy Score: 38
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:19 AM

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

PERSONAL BRANDS   |  1 comment

Radical Sabbaticals

BY Katharine Mieszkowski
Relevancy Score: 37
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:55 PM

Here's a sure-fire way to break the career monotony.READ»

PERSONAL GROWTH   |  Comment

Danger:Toxic Company

BY Alan M. Webber
Relevancy Score: 37
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:57 PM

The problem isn't that loyalty is dead or that careers are history. The real problem, argues Stanford's Jeffrey Pfeffer, is that so many companies are toxic -- and that they get exactly what they deserve.READ»

ONLINE BUSINESS   |  Comment

V. An Internet Union: Does Collective Bargaining Make Sense When " We're All Owners Here? "

BY Gregory J. Pleshaw
Relevancy Score: 36
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:33 AM

New-economy job classifications range from temp to perma-temp, independent contractor to freelance, full-time exempt to nonexempt, and salaried employee to wage earner. While it seems unlikely that one union could represent this ...READ»

ENTERTAINMENT   |  Comment

Best Business Blogs: Venture Capital

BY Jena McGregor
Relevancy Score: 36
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM

An expanded list of our favorites.READ»

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