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...holdings, where then CEO Bob Nardelli was collecting a nearly $32-million pay package for the year, while the company's stock languished. "We had reached a level of frustration because it seemed CEO pay, no matter what we did as activist investors, kept spiraling out of control," says Richard Ferlauto, AFSCME's director of pension and benefit policy. The quintessential example: after Congress passed a law that gave companies incentives to cap CEO base salaries at $1 million a year, the issuance of stock options, an alternative way to pad pay packages, skyrocketed - to the point that...
...Health Act, and more. Marshall himself was larger than life—not self-important. He was full of amazing stories about presidents and civil rights leaders and great figures in American history—many of whom he actually knew, such as the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Marshall was one of the world’s best storytellers and I would say that every day was a privilege to be able to interact with...
...What are you working on right now? CRS: I am most excited about a book called “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” which I co-authored with Richard Thaler. The basic idea of the book is that humans are amazing in many ways but cutting edge social science shows that we blunder and that our blunders make us poorer, less happy, and less healthy. The good news is that we are nudgeable through acts by private companies and governments. We can be nudged in directions that make us less poor, happier...
...Indonesia, Ann joked to friends that her son seemed interested only in basketball. "She despaired of him ever having a social conscience," remembers Richard Patten, a colleague. After her divorce, Ann started using the more modern spelling of her name, Sutoro. She took a big job as the program officer for women and employment at the Ford Foundation, and she spoke up forcefully at staff meetings. Unlike many other expats, she had spent a lot of time with villagers, learning their priorities and problems, with a special focus on women's work. "She was influenced by hanging...
...That's the key to Stuff White People Like - and the stand-up of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Roseanne Barr, Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck shtick, and Dave Chappelle's comedy, says Leon Rappoport, Kansas State psychology professor emeritus and author of Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor. "Instead of seeing these traits as something to be ashamed of, they're something to be laughed at." And the laughter is cathartic; it gives people a sense of empowerment and competence. "It's like they're mastering knowledge of themselves," he says...