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More Cause for Hope - After Novartis Chairman's Rescinded Golden Parachute, Swiss Voters Give Control of Hired Executives' Salaries Back to Owners
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8:47 AM
Recently, we discussed the latest stupefyingly big golden parachute given to a departing pharmaceutical executive. Former Novartis CEO an...
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Reason for Hope? - Novartis Rescinds Vasella's Golden Parachute
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11:48 AM
Enormous compensation of hired health care executives, out of all proportion, if related at all to whether their work had any positive effec...
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Legal Settlements Have Become So Common that They are Barely News
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9:06 AM
Legal settlements by big health care organizations have become so common that those of less than blockbuster size barely seem to qualify as...
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