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...recent paper, Fabrizio Ferri and David Maber of Harvard Business School document how, since say-on-pay went into effect in the U.K., CEO compensation has become more likely to fall when operating performance does. "'Say on pay' in the U.K. was effective in achieving one of its major goals," the authors write, "to reduce the 'rewards for failure' through a stronger link between pay and realizations of poor performance." That effect has been most pronounced at the firms handing out the biggest pay packages...
...explain how two types of particle, massless like everything else immediately after the Big Bang, came to acquire different masses as the universe cooled. Using this mechanism, which two Belgian physicists simultaneously posited, scientists were able to extrapolate how all particles get their mass. Higgs thus plugged a major hole in the Standard Model, the far-reaching set of equations on the interaction of subatomic particles that is the closest modern physics comes to a testable "theory of everything...
...Raconteurs eating up more and more of White’s time. “Consolers of the Lonely,” however, speaks to the painfully short half-life of side-projects at large, and sacrificing a White Stripes effort to another Raconteurs album would be a major miscalculation.—Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at meehan@fas.harvard.edu
...Russia's list of foreign investors. Clearly U.S. corporations are more cautious about investing in Russia than they were eight years ago - which is hardly surprising given Moscow's willingness to trample over even giants like Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum in its efforts to restore control over major oil and gas fields...
...driver of the Mercedes through alcohol." And all eleven believed that the fact that Diana and Dodi weren't wearing seat belts and that the Mercedes hit a pillar in the Pont d'Alma tunnel, instead of a larger surface that might have lessened the impact, were major factors in the deaths. Just as Baker directed, the jury delivered exactly the same verdict for both Diana and Dodi...