Drugmakers engage in ‘co-opetition’ through drug middlemen
Consumers can pretty easily discern how automobile manufacturers and their suppliers make money, for example. But fewer understand how their $20 co-pay for anti-cholesterol medication gets split between the drugmaker, the insurance company and the pharmacy benefit manager. New research from Olin Business School aims to explain.
Asian countries get a boost from the Center for Social Development
The Center for Social Development at the Brown School is advising and helping to test innovations in asset building — strategies that increase financial and tangible assets for families and businesses — in several countries in East and Southeast Asia.
Grant helps Center for Social Development invest in poor
The recent $2.5 million grant will support the creation of a permanent endowment for the center directed by Michael W. Sherraden.
Ford Foundation grant helps the Center for Social Development invest in the poor
At the Center for Social Development (CSD) in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., and his faculty colleagues, staff, and graduate students are dedicating themselves to addressing the root causes of poverty and finding solutions. To this end, CSD has found a partner in the Ford Foundation, a philanthropic organization whose goals include asset building to create better societies.
Weidenbaum Center forum series to open with discussion of excise taxes in health care
The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy will kick off its fall forum series with a half-day symposium on “Taxing Temptation: Excise Taxes and Health” from 9 a.m.-noon Sept. 23 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The series, which is free and open to the public, also includes forums on education finance (Nov. 4) and monetary policy (Nov. 30).
GWB’s Rank named to Hadley professorship
“One of the most important scholars of poverty in our nation today,” Rank’s formal installation will take place Dec. 11.