Open Stack cloud services company, SoftLayer, seems to be doing the acquisition dance with a couple of suitors at the moment.

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So a boss with a stack of options to buy the company's shares at a set price has a strong incentive to repurchase shares.

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"This company does not try to stack the deck when we study an important question, " says Dr. Andrew Bodnar , senior vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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