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Sleazy CEOs have even more options tricks: Backdating may be just the beginning: A lot of other suspicious stuff tends to happen when companies grant options.

Date: November 14, 2006

Author: Justin Fox

QUOTE: even before Lie's backdating bombshell, scholars suspected that executives were using insider information for financial gain in timing options grants and news releases. Does that make backdating just the most obviously illegal tip of an iceberg of dodgy corporate behavior? And is anyone going to get in trouble for the other stuff?

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Key People:

• Prof. David Aboody
• Prof. Erik Lie
• Jacob "Kobi" Alexander
• Prof. Henry G. Manne Esq.
• Professor Joseph A. Grundfest
• Dr. William Francis McGuire M.D.
• Bruce Karatz
• Prof. David L. Yermack
• Prof. Ron Kasznik
• Prof. Eric Zitzewitz

Key Organizations:

• Comverse Technology
• KB Home
• Time Warner
• UnitedHealth Group

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• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Sharing / Resource Allocation
      • Self-regulation
  • Information
    • Complexity / Predictions / Modeling
  • Timing / Delay / Procrastination

• Businesses & Organizations
  • Accounting / Auditing
    • Accounting/Budgets: Big Organizations
  • Human Resource Development: General
    • Wages/Benefits
      • Executive Compensation
  • Industry-Specific Issues
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      • Securities Fraud

• Law & Justice
  • Criminal Law
    • Theft / Stolen Property
      • Frauds / Scams: General
        • Business Victims
        • Consumer Victims
      • White Collar Crime

• Science & Technology
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    • Mathematics: Statistics

• North America
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