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...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...
...drink coffee all day. Mmmmmcoffeecoffeecoffee. A typical coffee day for me is: pot of caffeinated before breakfast; pot of decaf after dropping the kids off; iced coffee from the leftovers while I write in the morning; cup of coffee from the office machine before a meeting in the afternoon; furtive swig of the dregs of a cup I discover on my desk at the end of the day. Don't you judge...
...described her struggles and accomplishments as a matchmaker for her son Nico. In “Ballroom Dancing and Chocolate,” she described her husband Willie, while in “The Perverted Dwarf,” she sardonically described his initial attempts at writing a novel himself. Allende has worked as both a novelist and a journalist. Her books have been translated into 27 languages and have become best-sellers in four continents. In addition, she said that she writes letters to her mother every day. Among her most noted works is her 1982 novel...
...have the time? CRS: I’m too scared to see how much. I am sure I have written more than 12 books and pretty sure I have written more than 150 law review articles, but I don’t keep a count. I can write in crevices—meaning that if I have a half an hour between a class and meeting I can write in it. I don’t actually work very long hours, but I don’t need a lot of downtime during the day. So after a class...
...district. “He should have accessed them in an above-board and honest fashion.” Dionne said she sent e-mails that she thought were only read by the school committee during the time of secret administrative access, and had encouraged other parents to write e-mails as well.“I did so with the explicit understanding that these were confidential e-mails that [Fowler-Finn] would not see,” she said. “The breach of trust won’t deter me, but I know it will deter others...