Healthcare Recent Insights
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Literature and Leadership
The moral issues coming at executives today are increasing exponentially in complexity, frequency, and intensity. Literature can help cultivate a practice of judicious thought that is as sophisticated as these issues demand.
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What Can Patient Access Leaders Learn from SpaceX?
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Gist Weekly: April 19, 2024
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What Is Our Organization Trying to Be? Strategic Planning after Turbulence
Higher Education Recent Insights
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Financial Literacy: A Leadership Prerequisite
Financial literacy is the ability to understand where an institution stands at any given time with respect to key elements of its balance sheet and income statement. It is a skill that every institution should foster across its faculty and staff.
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Do You Really Know Your Institution’s Financial Position?
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Takeaways from Our Conversation with the Rating Agencies on the Outlook for Higher Education
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Beyond the Outlooks: Our Second Annual Conversation with the Rating Agencies Webinar
Thoughts from Ken
Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Literature and Leadership
The moral issues coming at executives today are increasing exponentially in complexity, frequency, and intensity. Literature can help cultivate a practice of judicious thought that is as sophisticated as these issues demand.
Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
How Intense Should a Leader Be?
Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Rethinking Building High-Performing Professional Teams
Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
More Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence
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Days Cash on Hand Does Not Tell the Full Liquidity Story
While days cash on hand is a pillar liquidity ratio for healthcare, liquidity is an equally important concept. There is a difference between wealth and liquidity, and recent events have demonstrated the growing importance of the latter.
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Slow to Upgrade, Quick to Downgrade?
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Three Must-Haves for Every Rating Presentation
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Downgrades Topple Upgrades: 5 Key Takeaways from Rating Activity in 2023
Trending in Healthcare Treasury & Capital Markets
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The Balance Sheet Buffer
Balance sheet strength has buffered consumers and businesses from some of the restrictive shock of higher rates. With a relatively brittle revenue model in healthcare, the focus becomes whether, when, and how to restructure operations as balance sheets are spent down.
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External Capital Formation in a Higher Rate Environment
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Thoughts About a Governance Downgrade
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From Incremental to Multivariable Management
Sustaining Higher Education
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Financial Literacy: A Leadership Prerequisite
Financial literacy is the ability to understand where an institution stands at any given time with respect to key elements of its balance sheet and income statement. It is a skill that every institution should foster across its faculty and staff.
Blog
Do You Really Know Your Institution’s Financial Position?
Blog
Takeaways from Our Conversation with the Rating Agencies on the Outlook for Higher Education
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Athletics Might Boost Enrollment, but How About Financial Performance?
Recent Reports
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M&A Quarterly Activity Report: Q1 2024
The 20 transactions announced in Q1 2024 continued a steady climb out of the slowdown in activity experienced during the Covid pandemic, significantly exceeding the number of transactions announced in Q1 of 2021, 2022, and 2023.
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National Hospital Flash Report: March 2024
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National Hospital Flash Report: February 2024
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