Apple Tries To Buy Steve Jobs’ X-Factor

Apple is hoping to prevent any exodus of management in the wake of co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs’s death last month.

The company has offered incentives amounting to US$60 million grants to most of its senior vice presidents.

Software executive Scott Forstall, hardware manager Bob Mansfield, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, marketing chief Phil Schiller, general counsel Bruce Sewell and operations manager Jeff Williams each received 150,000 restricted stock units, which vest between 2013 and 2016, according to filings.