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Here's hoping Microsoft/J.P. Morgan's new stock award program works the way it's intended and sparks similar action by other tech powers.
No incentive tactic has been as abused as the stock option grants offered by high-tech concerns to attract good people.
If these companies-and Wall Street-really expect folks to invest in publicly traded companies again, they have to clean up their acts and prove that greed is not the only motivation for corporate executives. And they have a lot to prove in a world where a stock can lose nearly all of its value for investors...