Posted by Admin | 9:29 AM

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...

Labels: executive compensation, golden parachutes, imperial CEO, manager-kings, managers' coup d'etat, WellPoint

Posted by Admin | 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...

Labels: executive compensation, golden parachutes, Novartis, perverse incentives, Switzerland

Posted by Admin | 11:16 AM

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

Labels: bribery, crime, executive compensation, golden parachutes, Northeast Health System, perverse incentives

Posted by Admin | 9:18 AM

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

Labels: academic medical centers, boards of trustees, bribery, conflicts of interest, golden parachutes, imperial CEO, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, You heard it here first

Posted by Admin | 9:16 AM

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

Labels: executive compensation, golden parachutes, Johnson and Johnson, marketing, mission-hostile management, perverse incentives

Posted by Admin | 11:11 AM

Golden parachutes are an always fascinating aspect of executive compensation in health care.  I have collected three relatively recently rev...

Labels: AMA, conflicts of interest, Erlanger Health System, executive compensation, golden parachutes, perverse defense of health IT, revolving doors, University of Chicago

Posted by Admin | 12:40 PM

The latest news about the Synthes Norian XL bone cement case shows just how bizarre incentives for health care leaders can be.  The Synthes ...

Labels: crime, golden parachutes, impunity, legal settlements, perverse incentives, responsible corporate officer doctrine, Synthes

Posted by Admin | 1:28 PM

We recently posted about how top hospital managers are often the first to benefit from mergers and acquisitions, which once again have beco...

Labels: executive compensation, golden parachutes, Hospitals, mergers, perverse incentives