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Economics

Prevention: How to Value its Long Term Health Benefits

  In healthcare, much of the conversation centers around what happens after people get sick: treatments, surgeries, hospitalizations, and expensive medications. But the most cost-effective and humane approach to improving health is often the one that gets the least attention and the least funding: prevention. Preventive care is not glamorous. It doesn’t generate headline-grabbing breakthroughs […]

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Economics

Prescription Drugs: Access, Affordability and the Human Cost

Few aspects of the American healthcare system provoke more frustration than prescription drug pricing. When patients skip doses of insulin to save money or pay $500 for a medication that costs a fraction overseas, it raises a fundamental question: how can something essential be so unaffordable in one of the richest countries in the world? […]

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Career Advice

College Athletes: Trained for the Game, Built for Business

When I think of my favorite colleagues throughout my career, it stands out that they are disproportionately former college athletes. I have seen the advantages of athletics really translate into the professional business setting – grit, teamwork, time management, and more. It is also no secret that super competitive roles (e.g. investment banking or consulting) […]