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		<title><![CDATA[The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionDonald Rubin Yes, thank you Terry. Just a couple of instructions for our phone participants. Operator instructions We are now ready for questions. Operator Our first question comes from Peter Appert with Piper Jaffray. Please go ahead. Peter Appert &#8211; Piper Jaffray Thank you, good morning. First question...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:14:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Implications For The Compensation Structure And Risk-Taking Incentives Of CEOs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper investigates the effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX on the compensation structure and the risk-taking incentives of CEOs, as revealed by their research and development expenses and capital expenditures. It hypothesizes that firms will respond to the additional liability imposed by SOX on corporate executives by altering the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Carrots, Old Yardsticks?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=105369]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From the executive summary: ‘With stock options increasingly out of favor, cash bonuses are making a comeback. The size of bonuses is increasing exponentially as stock options fall. But, if the form of incentive compensation changes, the grounds for earning such pay may not be. And that could be a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Optimal And Actual Use Of Economic Value Added In Incentive Compensation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=82458]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From the executive summary: ‘Executive compensation is increasingly sensitive to stock returns. However, even abnormal stock returns are highly volatile, and an optimal contract shields the agent from as much variability as possible. It is not surprising then that non-stock performance measures, such as earnings and other accounting measures are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Just Give Us The Facts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=106704]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From the executive summary: ‘Although, corporate America's resistance to recognize intangibles in financial statements is to some extent warranted by the unpredictable nature of the assets and the difficulty of gauging their value. Companies should not refrain from disclosing more detailed information about intangibles. Even if companies are reluctant to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Piece Of The Actions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As public companies continue to enrich their executives and employees through stock options, private companies have found several ways to keep up by offering their own equity-based or equity-like incentive compensation plans. When it comes to offering executives and employees a real equity stake in a privately held company, owners...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 1998 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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