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Knowledge@Wharton April 9, 2003	Stock Option Repricing: Employees Benefit But What about Investors? A paper written by Wharton accounting professor Mary Ellen Carter and Luann J. Lynch, a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business, examines the relationship between repricing underwater stock options and retaining employees.
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 July 22, 2009 Tim Hanson	Let's Stand Up to Scandalous Stock Options Public companies keep finding ways to mistreat their shareholders.
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?
The Motley Fool November 17, 2005 Bill Mann	An Open Letter to CryptoLogic In an effort to open a dialogue with this stock pick about its compensation policies, the author sends this letter to the company's board of directors on the heels of a discussion he had with the company's director of communications.
The Motley Fool September 13, 2005 Gardner, Gillies & Mann	Quality Systems: Vote No! The authors substantiate why voting against the digital record-keeping company's proxy is in the long-term interests of outside shareowners.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2009 Rich Duprey	Intel's Option Plan: Only Half Right A better option-repricing strategy is still no good.
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.
The Motley Fool May 25, 2004 Chris Mallon	A Proxy for Management The proxy statement gives investors an annual glimpse into the minds of management.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Plenty of Options at Yahoo! The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decreed that companies must begin expensing options this June -- a move that will make many of us watch the options-friendly tech giants such as Yahoo!, where there may be some chilling impacts to earnings.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2008 Bill Mann	M.D.C.'s Demented Compensation Proposals M.D.C. Holdings managers are paid for outperformance, and paid for underperformance.
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.
CFO August 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough?
The Motley Fool March 25, 2004 Brian Gorman	Applied Materials' Buyback The stock repurchase program sounds impressive, but has yet to add shareholder value.
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.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2004 Rich Smith	Dominion's Executive Pay Revolt Gas and electric utility Dominion Resources announced last week that it is in the midst of a shareholder revolt over executive compensation.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2005 Richard Gibbons	Executive Compensation Evolves Why Omnicare's restricted stock compensation may become the standard.
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 July 13, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Dueling Fools: Stock Options Bear Companies will have to scale back on exercising new grants or knock down their paychecks. Stock options, that wonderful concept on paper, has been abused badly by compensation committees. Investors, take note.
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?
The Motley Fool April 19, 2004 Selena Maranjian	CEOs Still Raking It In Are CEOs really 301 times more valuable than rank-and-file employees?
The Motley Fool April 2, 2007 Alyce Lomax	The Truth About CEO Compensation While CEOs fulfill very important roles, they should remember that they are employees, too. They must answer to shareholders, instead of their own greed and hubris.
CFO January 2009 McCann & Stuart	No Lifeline for Underwater Options In the two years following the Internet bubble burst, some 400 U.S. public companies offered to buoy underwater employee stock options by exchanging them for something of value, including new options with a lower strike price. Don't expect a repeat performance of that now.
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 February 26, 2004 Seth Jayson	IBM's Options Upgrade Options-based compensation for executives is rife with opportunities to fatten management wallets at the expense of shareholders Big Blue leads the way with a new and improved stock option plan.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2004 Rex Moore	The Beauty of ROE It's a simple measure of management effectiveness. Return on equity, or ROE, helps us determine how well management creates value for shareholders.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2004 Chris Mallon	Shareholder Dilution Delusions Using shareholder cash to stem stock option dilution is a deceptive, wealth-destroying practice.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Management Gone Wild Are the managers of the companies you own interested in creating shareholder value or protecting their own interests?
The Motley Fool January 23, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Google: Officially Evil Fresh from announcing market-besting quarterly results, Google is repricing its employee stock options. This is a great deal for employees and a lousy one for shareholders.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2005 Jim Mueller	Few Regrets for Sportsman's Guide One investor sold at $17.49, missing another 45% gain. But Sportsman's Guide shareholders should keep their eyes open and never let management forget who really owns the business.
The Motley Fool May 3, 2004 Bill Mann	Dashed Upon the Rocks of eBay Should you sell the greatest company in the world because it's overvalued? Maybe it really isn't. The author sold his shares of eBay and has had regrets ever since, especially as the stock has continued to climb.
The Motley Fool November 23, 2004 Jim Schoettler	The Billion-Dollar Secret As the debate rages over whether or not companies should expense stock options, we take a look at some basic questions: Why should stock options be expensed?... What does it mean for the investor?... etc.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2004	Where Stock Options Come From Learn the pros and cons of these controversial beasts.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Jim Schoettler	Identifying Effective Management Finding shareholder-friendly management teams may be the most important aspect of investing. We look at some tools that can help us measure what management teams are doing and how well they're doing it.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2006	On Employee Stock Options Companies often offer stock options to employees. Where does the stock in these options come from? Investors, take note.
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.
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Rich Duprey	Is CEO Pay Really Out of Whack? Their companies' performance may be faltering, but CEOs' pay packages sure aren't. Is this a new era of corporate greed? What does it mean to shareholders?
HBS Working Knowledge September 13, 2006 Jay W. Lorsch	Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do Compensation committees are under pressure to keep CEO pay high, even as shareholders and the media agitate for moderation. The solution? Boards of directors need better competitive information and an ear to what shareholders are saying.
CFO October 1, 2002	Reform: How the Corporate Landscape Is Changing Everyone from Congress to the journalist next door has a reform proposal to promote. This article assesses the likelihood of passage as well as the potential impact of several proposals.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2004 Eliot Cohen	Lies, Half-Truths, and Hubris Help the SEC make the right choice about fairer elections for boards of directors. Corporate insiders are spouting lies, half-truths, and hubris to prevent investors from getting a whiff of fairer elections for boards of directors.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Karen Krebsbach	Executive Pay, Still in the Hot Seat Shareholders are trying to gain more influence on executive pay as more resolutions hit the agenda at firms' annual meetings. But passage is proving to be tough.
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.
The Motley Fool May 7, 2004 Bill Mann	Rash of Activism at Staples This year's proxy statement from office supply giant Staples contains four separate shareholder proposals, the first time any shareholder proposals have been made in the last ten years.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2004 Selena Maranjian	A Daring but Doomed Proposal What if shareholders decided how companies spent their money?
The Motley Fool June 29, 2005 Rich Smith	Stupid CEO Tricks When it comes to executive compensation, you don't always get what you pay for. If your company is too busy making its CEO rich to make you rich, then it might be time to find a better investment.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Get Out and Vote! Proxy voting lets your shareholder voice be heard.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2004 Jeff Hwang	A Costly Tech Buyback Selling options low and buying back shares high destroy Texas Instruments' value.