Reason for Hope? - Novartis Rescinds Vasella's Golden Parachute

Enormous compensation of hired health care executives, out of all proportion, if related at all to whether their work had any positive effec...

Reason for Hope? - Novartis Rescinds Vasella's Golden Parachute 2015-05-20T19:00:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

WellPoint's Former Manager-Queen Got $20.6 Million and Its Nobility Got Millions

Score another for our new would be royalty, that is, for the hired managers who run big corporations.  Early this month a few scattered repo...

WellPoint's Former Manager-Queen Got $20.6 Million and Its Nobility Got Millions 2015-05-18T02:46:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

An Even Bigger Golden Parachute for Captain Outrageous

In 2009, I first posted about the amazingly colorful leadership and governance problems at a small hospital system in Massachusetts.  Backg...

An Even Bigger Golden Parachute for Captain Outrageous 2012-08-22T11:16:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Another Cautionary Tale about Conflicts of Interest: the CEO's Stretch Limousine, Golden Parachute, and Slush Fund

It remains fashionable in academic medicine to tolerate, if not celebrate conflicts of interest as necessary to support the "collaborat...

Another Cautionary Tale about Conflicts of Interest: the CEO's Stretch Limousine, Golden Parachute, and Slush Fund 2012-03-27T09:18:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Despite Recalls, Legal Settlements and Guilty Pleas - A $143.5 Million (or Perhaps $197 Million) Golden Parachute for the Former Drug Representative Who Is Now CEO of Johnson and Johnson

After 30 separate product recalls since 2009, and multiple legal settlements and guilty pleas, we noted that the former pharmaceutical repr...

Despite Recalls, Legal Settlements and Guilty Pleas - A $143.5 Million (or Perhaps $197 Million) Golden Parachute for the Former Drug Representative Who Is Now CEO of Johnson and Johnson 2012-03-15T09:16:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown