Ethics-Governance: Article: Underwater Options Case Study

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Underwater Options Case Study The Case of the Underwater Options By Miriam Schulman An acquisition raises questions about fairness and an employee’s right to know in this fictionalized case about a biotech start-up. A salary of $85,000 plus options to buy 30,000 shares of common stock it sounded like a reasonable deal to Leanne Gallagher. It was April 1999, and Gallagher was being recruited to join a start-up venture, MoniMed. The company, which had already been in operation for two years, made medical monitoring devices. Marc Cornwall, the director of engineering, who interviewed Gallagher, said the company was expected to go public within the year. If Gallagher took the job, she would be joining the 30-person firm as a senior software engineer. Full Article: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/underwater.html


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