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Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity
To the surprise of no one who has ever used multiple monitors, recent studies show that multiple monitors increase a user’s productivity 20%-30%. As the Slashdot article notes: For those of us who use multi-monitors, this is not shocking...

DOJ issues new guidelines for settlement monitors
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] issued new guidelines Monday limiting the appointment of independent monitors to verify corporate compliance with deferred-prosecution agreements...

Twebinars - Are Webinars Using Twitter Going Too Far
Anyone who follows my blogging probably knows I'm a bit of a Twitter fanatic. Still, I'm not sure about Twebinars, the new webinar series using Twitter.The current Twebinar series is being sponsored by social media monitoring company Radian6 who, incidentally, are based in Fredericton, New Brunswick (I think that's so cool!)...

Monitors in Deferred Prosecution Hearings
The hearing on monitors in Deferred Prosecution Agreements was held yesterday. To listen and view a video webcast of the hearing go here. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes, but there is a long break between the two sessions...

Who Monitors the Monitor
(Editor?s note: This post by Praveen Kumar and K. Sivaramakrishnan at the University of Houston is part of the series of posts on corporate governance articles accepted for publication in prominent Finance Journals) Our forthcoming article in the Review of Financial Studies entitled “Who Monitors the Monitor? The Effect of Board Independence on Executive Compensation and [...

Downside to Multiple Monitors
Dilbert exposes the possible downside to multiple monitors.