Stock Options

In January 2003, Dr. Harvey G. Klein helped ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. He was joined by his fellow board members of Haemonetics Corp., a Massachusetts company that markets blood-filtering equipment. A color photo of Klein and...

Times sure have changed. When Donna Takeda started working on Wall Street in the early 1970s, the pinnacle of technology was the Dow Jones news wire, which tapped out one-line notes about per-share profits and losses when companies released their...

On the Thursday after the terrorist attack, Chicago Board Options Exchange market maker Jon Najarian noticed that trading in options contracts on American and United Airlines stock had been remarkably active just before terrorists hit the World Trade...

A proposal for a major convention hotel to be built adjacent to the Baltimore Convention Center - on a city-owned parking lot that has seen grand ideas come and go - is to be unveiled at a City Hall news conference today. Black Entertainment Television...

Michael Ovitz today said he lavished gifts on people during his short tenure as Walt Disney Co. president because it was needed to nurture executives and improved the company's frayed relations with talent. In his fifth day of testimony in Delaware...

The investigations into Osama bin Laden's finances and of suspicious stock trading in the days before the World Trade Center attack could yield much useful information, Middle East analysts say, but cutting off terrorists' access to money will be...

The kids may still be in school and the calendar may still say winter, but vacation time will be here before you know it. For single parents trying to fill two roles, however, a vacation may seem more like work. Travel agents, resorts, touring companies,...

GEORGETOWN, Del. — A law professor testified today that Walt Disney Co. directors should have met to discuss the hiring and firing of former President Michael Ovitz that proved so costly to the entertainment giant. The testimony of Duke University'...

Michael Ovitz testified today that during his ill-fated tenure as Walt Disney Co. president he trusted Chief Executive Michael Eisner "1,000 percent," but found himself inexplicably undercut by Eisner and other executives. Ovitz recounted being...

It wasn't so long ago that stock options were the equivalent of corporate America's lottery. That still may the case be for a handful of Maryland executives. Among those who got mega-grants last year, Coventry Health Care Inc. CEO Dale B. Wolf...

GEORGETOWN, Del. — Former Walt Disney Co. President Michael Ovitz violated company conflict of interest rules by continuing to accept millions of dollars in commissions from the talent agency he once led, a lawyer suggested today. Attorney Steven...

For 15 million Americans, it is a daily ritual: gulping down a pill to reduce cholesterol. They do it because their doctors tell them to. Their doctors, in turn, rely on recommendations from the National Institutes of Health and its scientists, such as...