Different Perspectives On Options

11 March 2002


CEO’s see it one way. Employees see it another. Shareholders see it yet another. Why is it that we are creating companies in which there is such a disparity between all of these people who should have a shared interest? The reason is that we have CEO’s who seek to be treated differently from all other shareholders.
Stock Options Are Faulted by Buffett. Warren E. Buffett, using the forum that the Berkshire Hathaway annual report provides, has renewed his attack against the widespread use of stock options. [New York Times: Business]
T. J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor sees it this way. [from the Wall Street Journal]

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