Should Stock Options be Expensed? In the wake of corporate scandals causing some workers to lose their retirements, politicians, the investor class, and money managers began investigating how they could have been duped by the Chief Executives and Chief Financial Officers of the corporations whose s...

Performance shares: This is a modification to the stock options. At the core this strategy deals with rewarding stock options and cash to its executives. A typical example of how it works: A CEO receives a contingent grant of up to 5,000 performance shares at the beginning of the year. The t...

CEO pay, even among companies whose market share and sales have slipped, is grossly unfair. "How bad are things? Here's one wise man's assessment: "About half of American industry has grossly unfair compensation systems where the top executives are paid too much," says Charlie Munger, Warren Bu...

Broadcom Posts 1st-Quarter Results In Line With Reduced Estimates http://www.dj.com/http://www.dj.com/Wednesday, April 18, 2001 05:03 PM ET IRVINE, Calif. -- Broadcom Corp (BRCM, news). reported a sharp drop in first-quarter earnings from operations because of weak orders and said it hasn't...

Ethics and Suckers My personal interest in trading stocks and bonds led me to analyze this case, which involves ethics in business. Wheat First is a brokerage company and a member of the New York Sock Exchange and the NASD. They operate in the city on New York and are able to make recommendatio...

Tyco International Ltd. is a diversified manufacturing and service company. Tyco international was found in 1960 when Dr. Arthur J. Rosenburgh opened a research lab to do experimental work for the United States Government. About two years later he changed its focus to hi-tech materials science and ...