Description:  Apple Inc. (AAPL), seeking to retain its management team in the wake of former Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs’s death last month, gave $60 million restricted-stock grants to most of its senior vice presidents.

Source:  Bloomberg.com

Date: 11/04/2011

Link:  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-04/apple-doles-out-stock-grants-to-several-of-its-top-executives.html

Questions for discussion:

• Do you believe this is a wise financial planning decision at Apple?
• How do you think it will be received by other employees at the firm and by the stockholders?
• Do you believe this is the sort of activity being protested by the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters?
• How is it the same or different than what is being presented by protesters?