It would be a feather in the cap of Alcatel s Serge Tchuruk if the acquisition-minded CEO were able to engineer the purchase of struggling Lucent Technologies. Given recent increases in the use of stock options by both new economy and old economy companies, one might reasonably expect that employees the beneficiaries of this perk - understand how options work. But according to recent research by Wharton professors David Larcker and Richard Lambert, employees tend to be relatively uninformed as to the basic economics of stock options, a finding that has important implications for employers, boards of directors and management consultants. New Challenges in Online Conversion Imagine a new restaurant that has customers lined around the block to get in. No traditional business could survive such a disaster but on the Internet, this happens all the time.
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A workshop at Wharton on May 30 will explore the issues involved. Faculty members at Emory University and its Goizueta Business School as well as the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania present perspectives on a debate that is generating lots of heat and, hopefully, some light. Today, Infosys, based in Bangalore, India, is a world leader in IT consulting and software services. During a presentation earlier this month at Wharton, Murthy, chairman and CEO, shared his experiences as an entrepreneur. When the U.S. economy went through a recession 10 years ago, commercial real estate hit the pits.