Archives: 2007September

The Wall Street Journal is announcing the first annual list of Top Small Workplaces. The Journal, with nonprofit Winning Workplaces, is recognizing 15 small employers as having exceptional workplace environments. All have strong company cultures, professional-growth opportunities and benefits that make their employees want to stay.
If you’re looking for ways to engage employees and help […]

The Bush administration wants to alter its longstanding plan for possible attack on Iran, because severing that nationÂ’s links to terrorists has become its priority, replacing the drive to stop Tehran from building nuclear weapons, reports Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker.
The war plan had been built around a broad bombing attack aimed at, among […]

Anonymity on the Internet, while great for whistleblowers and free speech, does more harm than good by shielding creeps and criminals, says ForbesÂ’s Victoria Murphy Barret. Anonymity has been a part of the Internet since its earliest incarnation in the late 1960s as a network that could relay text messages after a nuclear attack. […]

The narcissism of the younger rising generation in the work force might be the shot in the arm corporate America needs, even if it is annoying. In the Boston Globe, Jake Halpern (born in 1975) declares anyone born after 1970 to be a member of the Entitlement Generation, marked by self-absorption, arrogance, a low regard […]

The National Review covered nearly every angle of that question over the weekend. Since so many of the shows’ plots were parables for political issues, the debate gets quite heated.
James Lileks says that Star Trek was at its worst when it was hamfistedly liberal in its representation of Cold War dilemmas and at its best […]

A convicted hacker has this to say about breaking into corporate computer networks: “It’s so easy a caveman can do it.”
That’s what Robert Moore, a 23-year-old hacker from Spokane, Wash., told Information Week. Moore is about to begin a two-year prison sentence for computer fraud, which goes to show that breaking into a company’s computer […]

Craig Venter made his name sequencing the human genome, and now he’s working on a bunch of big-think projects to push genomic science toward practical applications.
He dropped by Health Blog HQ recently to talk about what he’s up to. Click on the video window below to watch our conversation. We covered two areas:

1. The […]

Bristol-Myers Squibb is paying the government more than half a billion to settle charges that the company inflated the prices of its drugs, paid kickbacks to doctors and promoted its anti-psychotic drug Abilify for unapproved uses.
The broad outlines of the settlement were announced last December, but the specific accusations weren’t laid out until today. […]

Just when it looked like the new market for Medicare drug plans was starting to settle down, the government unveiled changes in premiums and plans for 2008 that could shake things up.
Right off the bat, UnitedHealth Group and Humana, the gorillas of Medicare drug plans, are set to lose nearly 1 million members between them. […]

The opaque mess that is health-care pricing won’t get cleaned up all at once. If it gets cleaned up at all, it may be the result of piece-meal fixes here and there.
While HMOs, hospitals and doctors duke out prices behind the scenes, some persistent patients may be having an effect, too.
Exhibit A is a Bob […]