Winter College Conversations
The Use (and Abuse) of Executive Stock Option Grants
Randy Heron, Kelley School of Business
Professor Heron's research has been instrumental in discovering that many corporations were backdating executive stock option grants to inflate executive compensation packages. This backdating of option grants has often been referred to as the biggest corporate scandal since the implosion of Enron. Hundreds of companies are currently under investigation for backdating and many have already restated financial statements. Professor Heron speaks about how academic researchers uncovered the practice and the steps that are being taken to prevent such practices in the future.
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About Randy Heron
Randy Heron is an Associate Professor of Finance and a Barbara Schmenner Faculty Fellow at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
About Winter College Conversations
Winter College Conversations are a series of interviews with faculty members who lectured during the
Winter College program in 2007. The series was produced by the IU Alumni Association with special
support from Ken Beckley and the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. Winter College
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