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  • James Militzer

    A Lose-Lose Situation: How medical insourcing impacts developing and developed countries (Part 2)

    The shortage of medical professionals is a global problem, affecting both rich and poor countries. But though developed-world health care centers are responding by recruiting workers from abroad, Dr. Kate Tulenko argues that this is the wrong approach. In her book, Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad, she explains why medical insourcing is a lose-lose situation for all countries involved. In part 2 of our Q & A, she discusses some possible solutions.

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    Health Care
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    governance, public health
  • Scott Anderson

    Remembering C.K. Prahalad : Through Action

    As part of the C.K. Prahalad Initiative at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, where C.K. Prahalad was a professor until he died three years ago this month, several business students presented the findings of their recent Multi-disciplinary Action Projects (MAP) on Monday. For this particular batch of MAP projects, in which first-year Ross MBA students devote themselves to a specific company or nonprofit organization for a semester, several students were embedded in BoP-engaged companies. Those firms included MedPlus, ICICI Bank, Move the Mountain, and Aravind Eye Care.

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    Education
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    Base of the Pyramid
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