News and Press Releases

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• WorldatWork
  April 2010
  Written by Vice President Jon Burg and Vice President Brett Harsen for WorldatWork's Compensation Focus. The article examines lessons learned in the aftermath of the numerous underwater exchanges that took place in 2009, looking at both shareholder and employee responses to the programs.
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• Agenda
  November 18, 2009
  Vice President Brett Harsen discusses how Risk Metrics' changing guidance caused some companies to cancel or revise their repricing plans
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• The Recorder
  August 31, 2009
  Vice President Jon Burg gives a consulting perspective of the current state of underwater exchange programs for The Recorder, a California legal publication [Read on]
• Agenda
  August 10, 2009
  Vice Presidents Jon Burg and Brett Harsen discuss how Boards can address underwater options in today's environment with this comprehensive by-lined article for Agenda [Read on]
• Workforce Management
  August 5, 2009
  Vice President Brett Harsen is interviewed for this article discussing the growing number of employers that are allowing employees to exchange underwater options via underwater exchange programs [Read on]
• Agenda
  June 22, 2009
  Senior Vice President Matt Ward and Vice President Brett Harsen provide commentary for the Financial Times' online publication Agenda which discusses the expected increase in option exchanges this fall [Read on]
• Bloomberg
  March 23, 2009
  Vice President Brett Harsen is interviewed for this article that looks at companies that have proposed or completed plans to exchange underwater stock options in order to increase employees' chances of making a profit [Read on]
• Radford Press Release
  February 9, 2009
  Shareholders Demand Executive Exclusion, Value Neutrality in Underwater Stock Option Exchange Proposals, According to Aon Consulting's Radford Research [Read on]
• Corporate Board Member
  January
  Radford's Vice President Brett Harsen is quoted in this article discussing the practice of repricing stock options
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• Wall Street Journal
  December 22, 2008
  Vice President Brett Harsen is interviewed for this Wall Street Journal article discussing how companies are executing their own bailouts for holders of worthless stock options [Read on]
• StockSense Newsletter
  December 16, 2008
  Senior Vice President Terry Adamson and Vice President Brett Harsen are interviewed in this Q&A article for Fidelity's StockSense newsletter discussing how companies should go about structuring an underwater options exchange program. [Read on]
• San Jose Mercury News
  November 7, 2008
  Vice President Brett Harsen is quoted in this front page article discussing falling stock prices in Silicon Valley [Read on]
• InvestmentNews.com
  November 7, 2008
  Radford data is included in this story about underwater stock options [Read on]
• Wall Street Journal
  November 10, 2008
  Vice President Brett Harsen is interviewed for this Wall Street Journal article discussing shareholders' role in stock option repricings and exchanges [Read on]
• Radford Press Release
  September 22, 2008
  Underwater Stock Option Repricings Resurge As Shareholder-Friendly Exchange Programs Evolve, Says Aon Consulting's Radford [Read on]
• Financial Week
  August 25, 2008
  Vice President Brett Harsen is interviewed for this article discussing underwater options and repricings [Read on]