For the sake of the experiment, the researchers promised immediatecompensation to some participants and deferred compensation to others, regardless of the incentive scheme.
"Immediate relief and long-term compensation must be provided by the brands who were sourcing from these factories, and responsibility taken for their lack of action to prevent this happening, " she said in a statement to the BBC.
So Towers Perrin came up with the clever idea of having Enron buy the contracts, providing the Lays with immediate liquidity, and hold them as deferred compensation for Mr. Lay with the idea that they would be transferred back in the future under a cliff vesting schedule.