5. Executive Stock Options

Beginning in the 1980s, stock options emerged and ascended to
become the foundation of most publicly traded companies’ long-term
incentive programs. Today, virtually all public U.S. companies use
stock options to motivate and reward their employees, and stock
options—or their financial equivalent—are also used by a large
number of privately held organizations as well.

Because of this prevalence, the recent and anticipated optionrelated
regulatory changes (as well as the often-heated public debate
concerning their use) promise to impact the compensation plans of
virtually every company. Far from becoming irrelevant, an incisive
understanding of options, the aforementioned changes, and the
emerging variations on their use is needed if you are to participate
effectively in the design, evaluation, or administration of an executive
compensation plan. —Editors



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