Business & Entrepreneurship

“Financing University Education” is the focus of a free public conference to be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the Bryan Cave Moot Court Room of Anheuser Busch Hall.

As America considers major healthcare reforms, it may have lessons to learn from Seguro Popular, Mexico’s ambitious plan to improve healthcare for its estimated 50 million uninsured citizens, suggests Ryan Moore, co-author of a new evaluation of the program. Conducted through a partnership of Mexican health officials and researchers from leading American universities, the study offers a model U.S. policymakers might use to scientifically explore solutions to America’s own looming healthcare crisis.

Theresa Wilson, founder and executive director of the Blessing Basket Project, will give the Women’s Society Adele Starbird address at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 15, in Graham Chapel.

“Financing University Education” is the focus of a free public conference to be held 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. April 14 in the Bryan Cave Moot Court Room. Anheuser-Busch Hall, Danforth Campus, Washington University in St. Louis.

Economic downturns test the skills of the most seasoned managers. In response to the challenges of managing during the current economic crisis, the Olin Business School at Washington University is shifting the focus of its executive education seminars. Faculty are fine-tuning their lectures and case studies to address the recession and its effect on many aspects of business.

“‘Meetings on the Move’ is an inexpensive, easy way to improve health and productivity,” says Tim McBride, Ph.D., associate dean for public health at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Meetings on the Move (MOTM) get employees on their feet and out of the office environment. “Forty percent of the population are absolute couch potatoes,” says Debra Haire-Joshu, Ph.D, and professor of social work at Washington University. “That’s almost a learned behavior. You learn to sit at school; you learn to sit at work. What ‘Meetings on the Move’ really does is get us active like we used to be when we were kids. We can learn then to bring activity back into our daily life, just like we learned to take it out.” Haire-Joshu also is the director of the Obesity Prevention and Policy Research Center at the Brown School. Video available.

Theresa Wilson, founder and executive director of the Blessing Basket Project, will give the Women’s Society of Washington University Adele Starbird address at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 15 in Graham Chapel. Her talk, “Making a Purchase that Makes a Difference: The Blessing Basket Project,” will be the final program in the Assembly Series’ spring schedule. It is free and open to the public.

Professors ranked among the most prolific writers don’t need to worry about the ‘publish or perish’ warnings in academia. Four business professors at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, are ranked among the most frequently published authors in the field of finance according to a new study. The data collected over the past 50 years suggests that getting published in the top journals is difficult and getting published more than once is an achievement attained by a small minority.

Patent and copyright law are stifling innovation and threatening the global economy according to two economists at Washington University in St. Louis in a new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly. Professors Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine call for abolishing the current patent and copyright system in order to unleash innovations necessary to reverse the current recession and rescue the economy. The professors discuss their stand against intellectual property protections in a video and news release linked here.

Washington University School of Law and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies will bring together leading experts for “Federal Budget and Tax Policy for a Sound Fiscal Future,” beginning at 8:45 a.m. March 20 and 21 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.