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Health Care Trendspotting: The Best of Times, the Costliest of Times
By Kate Norlander ’07 M.B.C. from the Spring 2012 edition of B. Magazine. It’s no secret that medical costs are soaring, and the costs related to treating cancer are particularly high. While costs and...
View ArticleHow to reward one person without causing team problems
In the Star Tribune‘s weekly “Ask the Consultant” column, Charles Tran of CreditDonkey asks about the best way to reward one member of a team without fostering a cutthroat work environment. Dr. Jack...
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Stories From the Sale of a Successful Tech Company
Compellent Technologies, an Eden Prairie-based provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions with automated data management features, including tiering and thin provisioning, for enterprise and...
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Healthy Minnesota: Communities in Action
The U.S. health care system is undergoing exciting, radical change. The significance of prevention and the role of community in creating a healthier culture is vital to empowering individuals to...
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Alumna Profile: A Multi-Faceted View of Ann Bray ’10 M.B.A.
How do you build a satisfying, robust career in a rapidly changing world? Ann Bray would tell you to never stop learning. Bray’s M.B.A. adds a business perspective to a career already shaped by...
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Fowler Follow-up: Michael + Susan Wuollett – Protégé Biomedical
Editor’s note: The 2012 Fowler Business Concept Challenge is coming up quickly and Opus Magnum will be highlighting a few past winners here over the coming days in hopes of inspiring entries for this...
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Bottom Line: Health Care and the Cost of Employee Retention
This post was originally published in B. Magazine A recent piece in The New York Times noted that total health insurance premiums doubled between 2003 and 2010 and that the portion of premiums...
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Healthy Minnesota Showcases Community-Driven Initiatives
Cross-posted from High Performance Health Care By Stephanie Hegland What started as a health care policy class last spring for Health Care UST MBA students Laura Templin-Howk and Tina Morey, culminated...
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4 Ways To Make Your MBA Application Stand Out
Deadlines are approaching–and in some cases passed–for B-school applications. The Evening UST MBA‘s priority deadline for Spring 2013 admissions was November 1, applications are still welcomed and...
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Health Care UST MBA Profile: Wade Blomgren
What does it take to be a leader in health care? For Wade Blomgren, regional business manager at Roche Diagnostics, the answer lies in the ability to collaborate across all facets of the healthcare...
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Leadership in Action: Moving up the Career Ladder
How does one successfully navigate the process of moving from an individual contributor or team member to a first-time manager and leader? Which leadership characteristics and competencies promote...
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“Be part of a noble service” says UST Commencement Speaker Randall Hogan
More than 250 students were hooded in the Graduate Business Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 25. Randall J. Hogan, chairman and CEO of Pentair, delivered the commencement address and told the...
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Health Care UST MBA Profile: Megan Szlachtowski ’14 M.B.A.
Megan Szlachtowski had always wanted to live in the big city. Moving from her family’s quiet farm in small-town Olivia, MN to the bustling port city of Duluth, where she graduated with a degree in...
View ArticleThe Medical Device Tax: Brakes on an Economic Engine
In this era of complexity and global economic uncertainty, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could invent a whole new industry? A field where people spend their days working on ways to change the world,...
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11 innovative ideas for creating a healthy workplace
Last month, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal held its fourth annual awards ceremony to recognize the 22 companies who scored the highest on its 2013 Healthiest Employers assessment. These...
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Alumna Profile: A Multi-Faceted View of Ann Bray ’10 M.B.A.
How do you build a satisfying, robust career in a rapidly changing world? Ann Bray would tell you to never stop learning. Bray’s M.B.A. adds a business perspective to a career already shaped by...
View ArticleACA Exchanges Launch Tomorrow – Dig in at USTbusiness Events
If you hadn’t heard, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) in beginning to be implemented and tomorrow marks one major step in that direction. Health insurance exchanges open around the country...
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Voldemort vs. Health Care
Iain Browne / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND Dr. Don Berwick, former administrator of the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and former president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement...
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Pioneering Health Care in Minnesota
Despite the threat of congress further changing the rules of our health care system, and a 16 day shutdown of the federal government, leaders across Minnesota and the Midwest have been working to...
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