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The Motley Fool June 28, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Grand Jury Tunes In to CNET A month after the SEC began an inquiry into the potential backdating of stock option grants at CNET Networks, a grand jury subpoena has also been issued to get to the bottom of this. Shares are trading more than 4% lower today on the news.
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 31, 2006 Jim Mueller	Too Many Options on the Menu Stock-based compensation weighs down the earnings of restaurants, of all things. Is it really necessary, though, if you are an established, profitable restaurant chain?
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.
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 May 23, 2006 Philip Durell	An Open Letter to UnitedHealth's Chairman The possibility of the backdating of stock options has cast a shadow over the company's long-term outperformance. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2006 Anders Bylund	Dueling Fools: Stock Options Bull When done right, paying your employees in stock or options can be a powerful tool. Investors should check the balance sheet for records of these grants when valuating a stock.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2004 Bill Mann	Taking Advantage of the Terminally Stupid In a public filing, Concord unveiled a plan to buy back employee options at prices up to $4. The trouble is, with a $9 share price, options granted at $40 are worth basically nothing.
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 January 18, 2007 Rich Duprey	A Monster of a Problem Prosecutors scrutinize the job search site over stock-option backdating allegations. What does it mean to investors?
The Motley Fool June 30, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Backdating Scandal Bites Apple Apple may "think different" when it comes to accounting practices, too. The company announced that an internal investigation led to the uncovering of mishandled stock option grants between 1997 and 2001. Investors, take note.
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.
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 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.
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.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2006 Selena Maranjian	11 Companies Rewarding Failure Investors, take a closer look at compensation, and ask yourself whether the CEOs of the companies you own are earning your respect and confidence -- or just earning more than they deserve.
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.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool July 14, 2010 Julie Clarenbach	Why Compensation Should Matter to You If you're an investor looking into a possible stock buy, what should you take note of regarding compensation?
The Motley Fool October 17, 2006 Rich Duprey	UnitedHealth's CEO Weighs His Options As one of the prime beneficiaries of the backdating scandal, the insurer's CEO decides to step down. It's a nice gesture, but a little hollow at this point.
Financial Advisor September 2009 David Lawrence	Costly Mistakes As financial advisors create their own team practices or go independent and set up independent RIA firms, one of the biggest challenges they face is designing a compensation plan for themselves and those who work with them and for them.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2006 Rich Duprey	Backdating Battle The SEC investigates stock option backdating at a dozen companies. Should the investigations uncover actual proof of wrongdoing at these or other companies, not only should the executives be held accountable for their actions, but the boards of directors should be punished as well.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2006 Anders Bylund	Options Inquiry Weighs on Openwave A beleaguered cell-phone software maker faces lawsuits for wrongs as-yet unproven. For now, investors must wait and see what the internal and external investigations find in Openwave's books.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2006 Rich Duprey	Fade to Color Kinetics The solid-state lighting company misses earnings and revenue projections. Investors, take note.
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 January 12, 2006 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: Options Bear Hedging, speculation, and arbitrage are fabulous processes enabled by options. Unfortunately, in their other big use -- as part of executives' compensation programs, options often cause more problems than they're worth.
The Motley Fool October 12, 2006 David Meier	Bed Bath & Beyond Comprehension The company tries to absolve itself in the stock options controversy, but doesn't. Investors, corporate America is just greedy, and this whole backdating issue exposes another layer of that problem.
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.
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 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 April 8, 2009 Kristin Graham	The Market's Best-Kept Secret There are many valid arguments against the use of private equity, particularly in today's changing credit markets. But the fact remains that these firms have done well in extracting value from the companies they manage.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Why Can't You Be More Like Oracle? Now that Oracle has initiated a dividend, let's see the bigger tech tightwads follow the lead. The time has come for Google, Apple, and Cisco to ante up.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Investors, Get What You're Paying For CEO compensation has nothing to do with performance.
Investment Advisor November 2006 Mark Tibergien	Just Rewards While compensation plays an important role in driving performance of individuals and the business, it's also important for financial advisors to recognize that money is not an adequate substitute for active management.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2004 Chris Mallon	Tech Execs Rake It In When it comes to equity-based compensation, not all employees get equal grants. My concern is with the disingenuous arguments from top executives that expensing or eliminating options will hurt the average employee.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Let's Fix "Say on Pay" Here's the Shareholder Bill of Rights take on compensation.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Rich Greifner	Steve Jobs Couldn't Care Less About You Despite great products, a killer brand, and mouth-watering growth potential, this analyst is bearish on Apple.
InternetNews August 23, 2006 Clint Boulton	Sympathy For Stock Option Backdaters? Whatever you want to call the chowder pot of stock option backdating cases, it still boils down to sketchy accounting.
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 July 22, 2009 Tim Hanson	Let's Stand Up to Scandalous Stock Options Public companies keep finding ways to mistreat their shareholders.
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 July 9, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Fool Blog: Look Out For the "Others" Apparently it's a creepy world when it comes to CEOs' "other compensation."
The Motley Fool July 13, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Dueling Fools: Stock Options Bear Rebuttal Investors, stock options are more trouble than they're worth. Even companies that are supposedly clean as a whistle, like Apple Computer and Intuit, have been caught in the backdating backbiting.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2006 Anders Bylund	Gee, Officer Krupke, That's a Lot of Stock Options! WebSideStory reports much lower earnings -- if you include stock-based compensation. Investors, this is still a growth story with plenty of opportunity ahead. And you can buy it at value prices right now.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 Morgan Housel	Buttering Up Blackstone Let's not call these guys crooks, but it's undeniable that Blackstone management is getting a much better deal out of the IPO than ordinary shareholders.
CFO June 1, 2009 Russ Banham	Fray on Pay The battle over executive compensation and what it means for you.
HBS Working Knowledge November 8, 2012 James Heskett	Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced? Pay for performance is almost universally employed in the US and increasingly elsewhere, even though the forms it takes ebb and flow. But now questions are being raised about whether pay for performance at its core is fatally flawed or at least misused.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2009 Dan Caplinger	5 Stocks That Won't Steal From You You don't have to fight your company's management. If the companies whose stocks you own won't put the brakes on their executives' avarice, then find investments where it simply isn't an issue.