Incentives

Reflections on the Earnest "Pursuit of Happiness"

Bob Banov and Roger Ohlsen | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Social Security, Religious Beliefs, Relationship, Money, Peace of Mind, Pursuit of Happiness, Incentives, Founding Fathers, Democracy, Parenting, God, Business, Culture, Dorothy Parker, US Constitution, Capitalist Economy, Freedom, Environment, Secular, Marriage Laws, Medicaid, Medicare, Society, Eric Hoffer, Happy, Separation of Church and State, Politics News
Bob Banov and Roger Ohlsen

When you consider that the founding fathers of our country tried to provide us with the means for the actual separation between church and state, you ...

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Graduate Economics: Balancing the Budget Without Benefit Cuts or Tax Increases

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Graduation, Safeway, Economics, Obesity Epidemic, Budget, Incentives, Obesity, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Mark R. Kennedy

Providing incentives to my children helped me to balance my checkbook. By doing the same, America could remain solvent with a lot less pain to beneficiaries and taxpayers.

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Why It's Good To Be Vampire Squid

AP | Associated Press | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Vampire Squid, Video, Wall Street, Bonus, Stock Options, Ceo, Perks, Incentives, CEO Compensation, Financial Regulation, Business News

NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein received total compensation of $16.1 million in 2011, a 14 percent increase from the year before. ...

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Joy Resmovits

Do Tests Help Student Learning?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Education News, Education Next, Research, No Child Left Behind, Dan Ariely, Standardized Tests, Incentives, Harvard, Education Research, National Academy, Video, Education, National Research Council, Eric Hanushek, Education Reform, Stanford University, Education News

When the National Research Council published the results of a decade-long study on the effects of standardized testing on student learning this summer...

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Accountability: How and Why a Boring Report Made Me Weep

James Gee | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Incentives, Schools, Educational Reform, Accountability, Nclb, Education Reform, Education News
James Gee

Why do we, in education, at a policy level, so often do what even commonsense tells us is wrong?

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Why Unions Get a Bad Name

Laura Mola | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Production Companies, Filmmaking, Right to Work, Big Business, Mob Tactics, Scam Tactics, Incentives, Blackmail, Flipping Companies, Union, Minorities, Business News
Laura Mola

My dad was in a union, my aunts and uncles, relatives, extended family, all staunch union members. It afforded my sister and me, daughters of an immig...

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Incentive Pay for Congress Would Fix the Economy: A Modest Proposal

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Incentives, Congress, Unemployment, Bonuses, Clawback, Ecnomy, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Members of Congress currently receive 174,000 smackeroos per year in base salary. What we should do is cut that salary to $100,000 per year, but provide incentives if Congress is able to successfully lower the unemployment rate.

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On the Divide Between Opinions and Reality Regarding Pay-For-Performance Compensation

Jodi Beggs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Incentives, Compensation, Economics, Pay for Performance, Behavioral Economics, Business News
Jodi Beggs

If an employee doesn't have a lot of direct control over company profitability, asking for compensation in the form of stock, stock options, profit-sharing bonuses, etc., is a bit like buying a lottery ticket.

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Overpaid

The 14th Banker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Incentives, Naked Capitalism, Executive Compensation, Business News
The 14th Banker

All the mortgage originators that submitted bad loan apps, knowing all along that is what they were doing, did not start off as fraudsters. Senior management made fraudsters, even banksters, out of them.

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Wall Street Trumps Main Street: Asymmetric Info in Derivatives

The 14th Banker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Incentives, Wall Street, Swaps, Derivatives Reform, Business News
The 14th Banker

Let me pull back the curtain on how derivatives work in one particular area on Main Street.

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Health Care Incentives Can Work

James R. Knickman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Incentives, Doctors, Medical Homes, Health Care Incentives, New York, New York News
James R. Knickman

New York State's Medicaid program recently announced an incentive program that would pay physicians approximately $23 more per visit if the physicians incorporated electronic records.

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Yin/Yang at the Federal Reserve

Jason Paez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geithner, Humphrey-Hawkins-Bill, Yin/Yang, Sherrod Brown, Monetary Policy, Incentives, Taylor Rule, Dueling Mandate, Transparency, Yves Smith, Cfpa, Federal Reserve, Bernanke, Lawrence Summers, Phillips-Curve, Dodd Financial Reform Bill, Accountability, Simon Johnson, Polifinance, Dual Mandate, The Financial Fix, Business News
Jason Paez

Consumers need a strong, independent agency that does not have inherent conflict within its core mission statement.

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Perverse Incentives in Healthcare

Alan Krinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Incentives, Health Insurance, Perverse Incentives, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Alan Krinsky

A study recently published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery reveals once again our healthcare system's perverse incentives. The authors, from the ...

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Tim Brown And IDEO: Designing To Innovate And Improve The World

HuffPost | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, Design Thinking, Tim Brown Change by Design, Ideo, Smoking, Change by Design, Incentives, Objectified, Tim Brown, Impact News

Back in June, I saw a screening of the Gary Hustwit documentary, Objectified, on how we often take for granted the objects that have transformed the w...

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Hiring Tax Credit: Support Builds For Proposal Rewarding Employers For Hiring, More Hours

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/07tax.html | Catherine Rampell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Credit for Hiring, Tax Credit, More Jobs, Robert Reich, House, Unemployment Rate, Washington, Economy, Hire, Bipartisan, Obama, Job Growth, Stimulus, D.C, Eric Cantor, Barack Obama, Economists, Employer Tax Credit, Unemployment, Hiring Tax Credit, What Is Hiring Tax Credit, Cantor, Senate, Tax Credit Incentives, Incentives for Employers, Incentives, Hiring Incentives, Politics News

The idea of a tax credit for companies that create new jobs, something the federal government has not tried since the 1970s, is gaining support among ...

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50 Best Places To Start A Small Business

FORTUNE Small Business | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Small Business Administration, Small Business, Small Business Owners, States, Economy, Startups, Incentives, US Business, Cities, Business News

Fortune Small Business ranks the 50 best places to start a small business in the U.S. ...

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Dollars for Grades: A Feasible Solution to Our Broken Public School System?

Halle Tecco | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Incentives, Education, Education Reform, Monetary Incentives for Grades, Paying Students for Good Grades, Public Education, Public School, Healthy Living News
Halle Tecco

If we don't embrace creative and progressive thought in improving our school systems, we're going to fail all of our children.

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On National Weatherization Day, a New Bunch of Skilled Denver Workers Pioneer National Green Jobs Movement

Jamie Starr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Labor, Economic Stimulus Package, Green Jobs, Alternative Energy, National Security, Incentives, Jobs, Green Energy, Labor Unions, Denver, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Colorado Green Jobs, Denver News
Jamie Starr

Once rolled out, the training program could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, reduce energy costs by $3.5 billion per year, and save 500 million barrels of oil annually.

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Want to Lower The Healthcare Price Tag? The Insurance Debate is Just the Beginning

Zack Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Plan, British National Health Service, Human Behavior, American Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Incentives, Health Care Reform, Insurance Co-Op, Health Insurance, Causes of Ill Health, Health Care, Politics News
Zack Cooper

As the healthcare debate rages on, it is important to keep in mind the limits of what our healthcare system can accomplish.

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California Dreaming: Driving on Sunshine

Kevin George | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Obama Environment, Energy Grid, Tesla Roadster, Plug-in Cars, Solar Panels, Environmentalism, Sustainability, Electric Vehicles, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Solar Power, Climate Bill, Gas Prices, Tesla Motors, Chrysler, Toyota Sales, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Obama National Security, Ford, Volkswagen, Nissan, General Motors, National Security, Hyundai, Toyota Prius, Electric Cars, California-Electricity, US-Electricity-Grid, Battery Life, Gasoline, Clean Coal, Coal Industry, Incentives, Chevy Volt Battery, Bmw, Battery-Powered Car, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Gas Guzzlers, Green News
Kevin George

Bottom line, if your enthusiastic about EVs, this may be your time to plug-in and get involved. Find out for yourself why there's electricity in the air around EVs.

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Obama Blows His Presidency -- Top Ten Health Care Reforms He Won't Do

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Incentives, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Sean Hannity, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Barack Obama, Obama Birth Certificate, Msnbc, Chri Matthews, Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Stanton Peele

Obama is afraid to tell Americans that -- well, remember that old sign: "You can have it cheaper, better, and more of it -- but not all at the same time."

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Stop Pay-For-Performance! Start Pay-For-Outcome.

Deane Waldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthcare System, Incentives, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Obama Healthcare, Hipaa, Pay for Performance, ARRA 2009, Adverse Medical Outcomes, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, British NHS, Health Information Technology, N.I.C.E., Electronic Medical Records, Politics News
Deane Waldman

The Obama Administration is considering implementing the pay-for-performance approach initiated by the British National Health Service (NHS). But that system has flaws.

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"One For All"

Deane Waldman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Regulation, Incentives, Healthcare System, Systems Thinking, Learning, Evidence-Based Medicine, Healthy Living News
Deane Waldman

Do you want to begin curing healthcare? Start by demanding a single standard -- "One for All" -- one set of rules for all people who determine our health care.

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