> What are the [Executive's] Incentives I think it's very important to keep your frame. With passive investors who simply are not privy to any of the decisions

> What are the [Executive's] Incentives I think it's very important to keep your frame. With passive investors who simply are not privy to any of the decisions and middle management who are often powerless, our question should be how we make executives responsible for the actions they oversee. Especially when those actions are discovered to be harmful years after they have left. Perhaps one option is that all executive stock options and compensation over a particular amount should be held in trust, distributed only incrementally, so that their "privatization of profits" can be recovered in the case of material damages done by the company while it is under their direction & control. The other thing we could do is give standing to middle management so they can sue executives from this trust if they can show executives were negligent. Incentivize middle management to have a financial stake in preventing unsafe behavior.