--- title: Money: How Stock Options Push CEOs to Take Risks description: Do stock options make CEOs take risks? Also, planning for the next El Niño, coding in kindergarten, knitting heart parts and more. canonical: https://time.com/4042406/stock-options-ceo-take-risks/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-21T16:01:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:34.947Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Stock Options Push CEOs to Take Risks og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4042406/stock-options-ceo-take-risks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Stock Options Push CEOs to Take Risks twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Stock Options Push CEOs to Take Risks by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 21, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 21, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Do stock options make CEOs take irresponsible risks?**](http://news.nd.edu/news/60300-throwing-caution-to-the-wind-ceo-stock-option-pay-may-increase-product-safety-problems/) By William G. Gilroy at the University of Notre Dame **2\.** [**The blockbuster El Niño coming this winter could help California but devastate the tropics. Here’s how we can help.**](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/21/el-nino-weather-save-california-destroy-tropics) By Kyle Meng and Solomon Hsiang in the Guardian **3\.** [**Coding in kindergarten preps young minds for a computer science future.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/09/18/441122285/learning-to-code-in-preschool) By Anya Kamenetz at NPR **4\.** [**These Bolivian craftswomen are knitting replacement parts to repair human hearts.**](http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32076070) By Ignacio de los Reyes in BBC Health Check **5\.** [**This might be the tech that makes things disappear.**](http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/09/17/making-3d-objects-disappear/) By Lynn Yarris at Berkeley National Lab  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4042406/stock-options-ceo-take-risks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4042406/stock-options-ceo-take-risks/"},"headline":"How Stock Options Push CEOs to Take Risks","datePublished":"2015-09-21T16:01:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:34.947Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4042406/stock-options-ceo-take-risks/","keywords":["Innovation","El Nino","CEO","Volkswagen"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4042406/stock-options-ceo-take-risks/","name":"How Stock Options Push CEOs to Take Risks"}}]}] ```