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...sticks come in. While employers like Kaiser Permanente dangle cash incentives for workers who submit to health evaluations, others, like AstraZeneca, threaten higher premiums for not taking part. Scotts Miracle-Gro has gone so far as to fire a worker for smoking; he has since filed a federal lawsuit charging discrimination. Worthington CEO McConnell says he would never fire a worker for poor health, maybe because he's no Lance Armstrong himself: 6 ft. and 230 lbs., at 54, he is a lapsed jogger who sneaks a smoke some evenings and whose risk assessment is only moderate. Even for bosses...
...corporate ranks, as a lackey of the previous CEO, the notoriously difficult Michael Eisner, whose boldness was often considered an asset. Many inside and outside Disney questioned whether Iger, 56, had the maverick's instincts to run the storied company. Shareholders Stanley Gold and Roy Disney even filed a lawsuit to void his election by Disney's directors...
Gold and Disney, who eventually dropped their lawsuit over Iger's appointment, now count themselves among the Iger believers. "The ultimate outcomes of the technological changes that are occurring in the business aren't clear to anyone," Gold says, "but Bob is working hard to figure...
...arbiter of sexual politics, weighed in with a column on the movie. So did just about everyone who writes for The Huffington Post. Yesterday I received a promotion for a 1982 Eastern European art film that the publicist ID'd as "'Knocked Up,' Polish style." And there's the lawsuit from the author of a humorous memoir called Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be. Rebecca Eckler, whom Booklist describes as "Canada's answer to Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell," claims suspicious similarities between the movie and her book, which was submitted to several Hollywood producers...
...Shleifer did not emerge from the scandal unscathed. His case led to a federal lawsuit that cost the University $26 million and was one of the biggest single factors in University President Lawrence H. Summers’ downfall last year. In October, Shleifer lost his endowed chair, but not his tenure. A Faculty-led investigation apparently concluded that he violated University policies—Shleifer had been advising the government under the auspices of the Harvard Institute for International Development...