“Executive compensation may be the lightning rod for shareholders in the wake of the financial crisis, but the truth about how pay should be structured is clouded by a lot of popular myths,” says ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the accounting industry and accounting issues for investors. That's the thesis of a new book of the same name by Professor ...

For Penn students who hope to one day take over the world, attendance at the Provost's Lecture by Wharton Professor David Larcker should have been mandatory. Entitled "What's Going on in Corporate ...

Mega grants have made a comeback. The generous and controversial one-time compensation packages, usually made up of stock options and tied to specific business goals, are often deployed in hopes of ...

David Larcker is the James Irvin Miller professor of accounting and director of the corporate governance research programme at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a senior faculty member ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover entrepreneurs, focusing on global and social entrepreneurship. I’m at a two-day program on corporate governance, sponsored ...

In the financial markets, a lot rides on the word of a company's top executives. If a CEO tells a lie, a lot of shareholders can get hurt. Now, after studying thousands of corporate earnings calls, ...

One of the more intriguing changes in executive and employee compensation is the increase in the use of stock options. Although much of the discussion about stock options has focused on “new economy” ...

Among the 500 companies represented in Fortune’s flagship ranking, Black executives only lead eight of them. That’s 1.6%, a figure that is as microscopic as it is nearly record-breaking: Last year ...

David F. Larcker does not have any significant net worth to report based on the numbers we have. This is based on reported shares across multiple companies, which include WELLS FARGO ADVANTAGE ...