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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In Search Of Returns
The wonderful thing about financial markets is that they help to get funds from people who have them to people who have a productive use for them. In other words, they help to make things more efficient by enabling money to be put to good use. The problem with financial markets, though, is that more […]
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Case Math
(Source: Flickr) In this post we outline some mathematical concepts that may prove useful for solving consulting case questions. 1. Break Even Analysis: Relevant when trying to decide whether to launch a new product or invest in a project with high fixed costs. 2. Customer Lifetime Value: Customer lifetime value is a prediction of the entire future […]