25 March 2013 - metrics 4

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Even the stock value of a public corporation is a misleading metric. The value will be over the exercise price at some point before the boss’s options expire, and why would management care about anything else? Or if not, then the board will grant the boss better terms, because what other way is there to motivate leadership?

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