Affordable Healthcare Initiatives Help Healthcare MBA Grow
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated that employment for Medical and Health Services Managers will increase by 23 percent from 2012 to 2022. This increase can be attributed to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, as well as new mandates by the Supreme Court for affordable healthcare. The new standards set by these government acts, will change how the health care industry, insurance companies and private practices will deal with healthcare.
With the increase in employment opportunities, the need for qualified healthcare managers will also increase. An MBA in healthcare management can help you to learn the skills necessary to be a successful manager in the healthcare industry. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare managers work to improve efficiency and quality in delivering healthcare service, supervise assistant administrators, manage finances of the facility, schedule employees, serve as representatives at meetings and on governing boards and work with members of medical staff and different heads of departments.
Executives Lend Real World Experience to Kellstadt Classrooms
Because of DePaul University’s dedicated network of alumni and location in Chicago business, students at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business have to ability to work with business executives in the classroom, as covered in this series of stories on the school’s website.
Business leaders’ interactions with students goes beyond guest lectures and networking dinners — they participate in the curriculum and engage students by presenting real-world examples.
Take Mark Hoppe, CEO of MB Financial Bank, and Harry M. Kraemer, former chairman and CEO of Baxter International, for example. Continue reading…
Alumni Profile: Rohan Shah, Kogod MBA ’09
Rohan Shah, an alum from American University’s Kogod School of Business, gained great interest in green energy and sustainability while earning his MBA. Through his studies and experiences he deduced that it’s not possible to have a growing economy without growing resources.
“Climate change is a big issue that a lot of us recognized a long time ago. We have to look at climate change in a real way,” said Shah in an article on the Kogod website. Continue reading…
New GMAT Features Debut July 19
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) will introduce new features for the GMAT entrance exam for applicants to business school. These three new features, which will go in to effect on July 19, will help to improve the GMAT exam experience. The new features were created out of the results of GMAC surveys of GMAT exam takers’ experiences. Here’s what you can expect with the new GMAT features:
Cancelled scores will no longer be shown on any future GMAT score reports generated by GMAC. Test takers can choose to cancel their score if they don’t feel as if they have done as well as they had hoped. When scores are canceled, a “C” shows up on the reported scores when they are sent to business school admissions. The new feature will eliminate the C on the submitted scores, so that the test taker is the only one who knows that a score was cancelled.
D’Amore-McKim Hosts Networking Event for Europeans in Boston
The D’Amore-McKim School of Business will be hosting a networking event for all Europeans currently living in the Boston area. The event will be held Friday, July 17, at Northeastern’s Columbus Place, Alumni Center from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event is open to the public as well as Northeastern alumni. Drinks and appetizers will be provided to those in attendance.
Those interested in attending can complete an online registration, here. During the event, prospective students can learn more about the graduate degree programs offered at D’Amore-McKim. D’Amore-McKim offers Part-Time, Full-Time and Executive MBA programs as well as several different MS, JD and numerous graduate certificate programs. The school also offers two dual degree programs for JD/MBA and LLM/MBA.
NIU Prof Christine Mooney Chimes in on Twitter’s Interim CEO and Leadership Succession
Christine Mooney, Northern Illinois University’s Associate Professor of Management, lent her insights on leadership transitions to Bloomberg Business in an article they ran on the appointment of Twitter Interim CEO Jack Dorsey.
“You’re basically on cruise control in your company,” said Mooney in the article. “Jack Dorsey may be able to get away with some more changes than other interims, but really he could start something and the permanent CEO could come in and say, ‘I want to do something else.'” Continue reading…
