IBM has new stock-option rules for its 300 top executives that will
set the price at which the options can be bought and sold at 10 percent above
the market price on the day they are granted, the Associated Press reports.
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value for shareholders before benefiting from stock options. The company says
it's the first company with this type of performance-based approach to stock
options.
"This is a way of saying the executive doesn't get any benefit unless
he or she makes the company grow, makes the stock price grow," says John
Bukovinsky, an IBM spokesperson.
The AP notes that stock options have come under increased scrutiny recently and
some companies have moved away from them and toward granting stocks outright.
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