Now this would be meaningful health reform
Posted on October 7, 2009 at 1:38 pmOutlining an idea that would move health insurance “away from spending other people’s money and shifting the burden to others,” Owen management professor Larry Van Horn writes in Modern Healthcare on how the auto insurance model wouldn’t be half bad if applied to health care, if only because it would get us to change our behavior.
What if I purchased auto insurance the way I receive health insurance — priced independently of conduct, with a true premium cost hidden from view that covered all preventive maintenance? I would drive like a bat out of hell. The insurance also would be so costly that I wouldn’t be able to afford it.
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Why the music biz needs to embrace subscriptions
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 11:42 am
Veteran music executive and current Owen professor Tim DuBois imagines a different type of problem for the industry now wrestling with the rise of $1 dollar downloads over $15 CDs.
“If you take $5 times the total number of people who have Internet service, that’s a bigger business than the total music business right now,” DuBois said. “Then all of a sudden you’ve got a bigger number, but how do you divide it up? How do you make sure the songwriter is paid?”
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Owen woos the recruiters
Posted on August 19, 2009 at 6:22 amVanderbilt’s MBA program rolls out the red carpet for those in charge of hiring at big companies — while pointing out the green aspect.
“Our goal was to create a website that would answer all of the recruiter’s questions in a well-organized format,” said Joyce Rothenberg, director of Owen’s Career Management Center. “Business recruiters I’ve talked to love that everything they need is just one or two clicks away.”
Creators say the site is also helping Owen to be more environmentally responsible by dramatically cutting the amount of paper the school prints and mails out. And recruiters say it’s much easier to find information online instead of having to store and file printed materials.
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Owen dean named to boards board
Posted on June 24, 2009 at 2:25 pmJames W. Bradford, dean of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, has been tapped to serve on the board of directors for the Graduate Management Admission Council. That group is responsible for administering the standardized exam, and bane of many a business school candidate’s existence, the GMAT.
Full details available here.
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Because taking off a day every two weeks makes you expensive and expendable
Posted on March 31, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Acknowledging the jittery job market, Vanderbilt’s Owen School is extending its Executive MBA program by making it weekend-only.
“Our goals in making this change are simple — preserving the selectivity of this highly successful program while bringing flexibility to employers and their key managers who need advanced education for the demands of difficult economic times and beyond,” said Jim Bradford, dean of the Owen Graduate School.
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Yanking your money will cost you
Posted on December 12, 2008 at 1:39 pmSo says Owen professor Nick Bollen, who has looked into the numbers behind hedge fund redemptions. Besides, buy and hold will soon make comeback, right?
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Added advisers at PharmMD
Posted on December 1, 2008 at 11:55 pmThe Brentwood-based medication therapy management company has recruited a Johns Hopkins surgeon, an Owen professor and a health IT CEO to its board of advisors.
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