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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.
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?
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.
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.
Inc. March 2005 Darren Dahl	FASB Limits Stock Options What new stock option rules mean for you. If you hand out stock options to employees, a controversial ruling from the Financial Accounting Standards Board might give you pause.
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.
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
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Nanette Byrnes	Beyond Options However you slice it, the new mix will cost companies more
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005	Too Many Ways To Expense Options Expensing stock options was supposed to provide a clear, consistent picture of earnings that can be compared across companies and industries. But that goal may now be fading.
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?
Inc. October 2005 Darren Dahl	Granting Options Like It's 1999 New rules do little to dampen private companies' use of stock options.
Investment Advisor August 2006 Dan Sullivan	Why Would Great People Want to Work for You? For financial advisors and others, most marketing efforts involve finding the right clients, but to do so, you need the right staff members to attract and retain those clients. Here are the five qualities of a "great" entrepreneurial organization.
Entrepreneur August 2004 Stephen Barlas	Out of Sight Stock options can stay off your balance sheet--for now. The Stock Option Accounting Reform Act seeks an economic impact study and provisions for small businesses.
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?
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.
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Roy Mark	House Votes to Block Stock Option Expensing The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation supported by the tech industry to pre-empt a proposed federal accounting regulation calling for corporations to deduct the cost of all employee stock options from their profits.
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.
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.
Entrepreneur May 2008 Nichole L. Torres	Budget Sense Get your books on track with tips from author and expert Julie Aydlott.
AskMen.com September 9, 2001 Michael Bucci	Want To Be An Entrepreneur? It doesn't matter if their businesses earn $10 billion or $100,000 annually; entrepreneurs tend to share certain character traits. Do you have what it takes?
The Motley Fool May 11, 2004 Mark Mahorney	A Monkey on Symbol Technologies' Back Can dysfunctional companies clean up their act once and for all?
CFO August 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed.
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Louis Lavelle	Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration?
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate: Stock Option Expensing Likely Tech industry claims new accounting rules will hurt profits and cripple employee incentives.
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...
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Option Accounting Causes No Pain Options are being expensed on the income statement, and the world didn't come to an end. The truth is that these companies were already being valued by analysts with some form of accounting for options grants taking place.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2004 Bill Mann	FASB: Ready to Rumble The Financial Accounting Standards Board announces it intends to require companies to expense stock options.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Chris Mallon	Who'll Be Liable for Options? A new proposal adds a dynamic twist to expensing stock options.
CFO August 1, 2003 Craig Schneider	Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again.
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 August 14, 2008 Jeffrey Bussgang	Think Like a VC, Act Like An Entrepreneur Getting employees to adopt both an entrepreneur's bias for action and a venture capitalist's talent for hard-nosed analysis is a challenge. But no one said excellence was easy.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Stan Luxenberg	The Smart Way to Use Index Funds Now In the cold light of the bear market, advisors have discovered inherent flaws in the indices and the funds that track them.
Knowledge@Wharton	Do Accountants Who Act as Consultants Take Greater Care or Cut Corners? New Wharton research challenges the idea that lucrative consulting contracts routinely lead auditors to look the other way when preparing financial audits, a key allegation in the scandals at WorldCom, Tyco and Enron.
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 May 1, 2003 Kris Frieswick	Better Options Disillusioned investors are demanding stronger links between executive pay and long-term performance.
HBS Working Knowledge June 18, 2007 Mihir Desai	Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field A Harvard Business School professor argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they report to shareholders.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Stock Options Hurt U.S. Competitiveness The failure to expense stock options is causing distortions and inefficiencies in U.S. labor and capital markets.
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.
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.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Steve Hamm	Chambers: Stock Options Inspire Innovation John T. Chambers, chief executive officer of networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., is an outspoken critic of upcoming accounting rules requiring companies to expense stock options. In an interview, Chambers explains his position:
CFO October 1, 2003	Letters to the Editor CFOs should quit whining... can nontraditional CFOs succeed?... disagreement over the options debate.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Louis Lavelle	Stock Options: The Fuzzy New Math In solving one problem by forcing companies to recognize that options have a cost, we've created something equally complex: Shareholders will have no way of knowing whether their companies are accurately estimating expenses or engaging in wishful thinking to burnish the bottom line.
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.
Search Engine Watch October 7, 2010 Mathieu Burgerhout	Why You Should Prevent Certain Pages From Being Indexed All pages are not created equal. Having fewer "unimportant" pages of your site indexed will put more emphasis on your "money" pages.
Inc. November 2005 Schramm & Litan	Seventeen Workers and $60 Million in Sales In the past 10 years, entrepreneurs have consolidated their position as the key drivers of radical change in America, bringing to market ever more sophisticated personal computers, operating systems, software, and, most recently, e-commerce.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2005 Richard Gibbons	Executive Compensation Evolves Why Omnicare's restricted stock compensation may become the standard.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2004 Bill Mann	Silliness From Taser Taser granted 3.56 million options to employees through last year at an average strike price of $3.65, creating a head office that, out of 42 employees, has 28 millionaires, "with no cost to the company."
Entrepreneur September 2005 Rieva Lesonsky	In the Driver's Seat While navigating the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, your independence is your best asset. After all, business ownership is not just about owning a business -- it's about taking ownership of your life.
Entrepreneur May 2004 Laura Tiffany	Go to Town Be good to your city, and it will be good to you.
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.