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...employees who do the best work. Such pay-for-performance programs have only recently caught on in the health care industry, but caught on they have - more than half of U.S. health plans, including Medicare, report offering some type of incentive pay to doctors and hospitals for meeting certain basic standards of care, such as encouraging annual mammograms or reducing the rate of hospital-acquired infections. The small bonuses typically amount to 10% of physicians' annual salaries or less, but studies demonstrate that they can dramatically improve the services doctors provide. "Offering doctors and hospitals more money encourages them...
...field, but we also take classes with them, live in the same residential houses, and often attend many of the same social gatherings (read: keggers) as them. Even with a conflict-of-interest policy that attempts to eliminate bias from our coverage, we cannot help but feel a certain empathy for the student-athletes we are so connected to.Despite the ease and comfort that our extraordinary access provides, perhaps it might seem to produce a net negative effect, coloring our coverage and complicating our personal interactions. Are college journalists incapable of unbiased, high-quality reporting? And when we see that...
...exist and that the abolition of the Council would be a good thing. Its members come together on the second floor of PBH, wait forty-five minutes until a quorum is gathered, and discuss lunches with the Dean, the formation of the Motorscooter Club, and whether or not a certain member should be allowed to change his vote. Frequently, Council members themselves realize that they have little purpose, and ask agonizingly, “are we just the errand boys of Dean Watson...
...flight teams such as then-No. 1 Virginia, then-No. 13 Pepperdine, then-No. 8 Michigan, and especially against then-No. 17 Texas Tech in the Crimson’s first NCAA tournament in four years. The squad’s grueling slate before Ivy League play began certainly left Harvard prepared to face its less challenging conference opponents. Although the schedule gave the Crimson a taste of the NCAA’s best in 2008, it remains to be seen whether Harvard can repeat this year’s performance next season and make good on co-captain Clayton?...
...leading candidates, try them out in different markets or market sectors and compare their effectiveness over time. This sort of experiment is not only useful in helping us determine how to spend the immediate stimulus package but, more importantly, it can help us with market problems that we are certain to encounter in the future...