Stock options are one of the most potentially valuable and most frequently mismanaged forms of employee compensation. The ...

Stock compensation is rocket fuel for employees of SpaceX. Its IPO will make many of them millionaires. Here's what I learned ...

Public companies often compensate employees in part by giving them stock options. This form of employee compensation conserves cash, improves retention and aligns employees’ interests with the ...

Employers are thinking about long-term strategies for attracting and retaining workers without dipping into their cash flow, and they’re reaching back into their late 1990s bag of compensation tricks.

Start-up and early stage companies commonly offer equity compensation to attract talent, encourage employee retention, and align company and employee interests on business objectives. There are several ...

Retaining and rewarding key employees is a challenge for franchise businesses. As a result of basic retirement benefit rules (which apply to qualified plans), many key employees do not receive the ...

Microsoft Corp. 's surprising announcement over the summer that it would cease giving stock options to its employees has high-tech executives scratching their heads, wondering whether and how to ...

You’re three months into building your startup, your first contractor just hinted they want “equity instead of cash,” and an advisor told you to “just issue some options”, as if that should make ...