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Year-end bonus is an incentive to cheat

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to look far these days to find examples of corporate scandals involving fraud. But Judi McLean Parks, the Reuben C. and Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior at Olin Business ...





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New business theory shows compensation plans can make or break a firm

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created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Greed has been blamed for most of Wall Street's woes and the banking sector's recent collapse, but two professors at Washington University in St. Louis say envy is really to blame. And, they warn, envy is ...


Severity of Injury, Not Legal Fees, Drives Cost of Workers' Compensation

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The severity of injury and level of impairment -- not the workers' legal fees -- have the most effect on payout for workers' compensation claims among Illinois construction workers, researchers at the University ...


Human guinea pigs link pay and risk levels

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human guinea pigs do their homework before volunteering for high-paying clinical trials. New research shows that people equate large payments for participation in medical research with increased levels of risk. And when they ...


Nokia sues top LCD, CRT display makers

Technology / Business

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it has filed suits against several leading liquid crystal display makers - including Philips, Toshiba, Sharp and Samsung - for alleged price fixing.


Medicine's small business practices should be supported by federal budget

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Speaking from his perspective as a physician who practiced for nearly 30 years in a small medical practice in rural Virginia, Jeffrey P. Harris, MD, FACP, president of the American College of Physicians (ACP) testified today ...


Yahoo's Yang gets $1 in rocky final year as CEO

Technology / Business

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. limited co-founder Jerry Yang's 2008 compensation package to his customary $1 salary during his final year as chief executive, a tumultuous reign that unraveled after he rebuffed Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 ...


South Korea court rejects claims against Microsoft (AP)

South Korea court rejects claims against Microsoft

Technology / Software

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A South Korean court Thursday rejected compensation claims filed by two software companies against Microsoft Corp.


NXP Introduces Advanced 3DTV Processor

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of the PNX5130, the industry's first video co-processor enabling 3DTV, frame-rate conversion (FRC) and local backlight dimming in a single chip. By eliminating the need ...


Sun CEO's pay package cut by a third in '09 (AP)

Sun CEO's pay package cut by a third in '09

Technology / Business

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The value of Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz's latest pay package dropped 37 percent from last year as the company lost more than $2 billion and was in such dire financial shape that it ...


UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China (AP)

UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing ...



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