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01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business

In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

high-performing facilities would attract more patients, boosting revenues. Costs would stabilize because hospitals would compete among themselves on the basis of prices, services, and results for the consumer. MAN WITH A PLAN: Candidate Obama at an View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

case-method teaching, but that focus was actually the second of what he called "the two great adventures" of his career. Born in 1919 in Tyler, Minnesota, Christensen grew up in Iowa City, where his father was a professor at the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Mar 2008
News

Classroom Legend

Policy Christensen is most widely remembered for his contributions to case-method teaching, but that focus was actually the second of what he called “the two great adventures” of his career. Born in 1919 in Tyler, Minnesota, Christensen grew up in View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Iowa Dr. Beth A. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, an internal advisor with the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest, a NIOSH Center... View Details

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

these institutions—but how can 100 senators possibly know what a doctor in Dubuque, Iowa should receive for removing a mole? So these 3 are the iron triangle, and they've got all the power in their hands. They're abetted by the academics... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

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