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understanding management
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Understanding Management
What are the differences between the waves of the 1980s and the 1990s?
Are mergers in the health services industry rising or falling? Explain your answer.
Describe several situations that might produce synergistic gains within the health services industry.
Suppose your firm can purchase another firm for only half of its replacement value. Would this be sufficient justification for the acquisition?
What is the difference between a hostile and a friendly merger?
Is there a need to regulate mergers? Explain your answer.
Do the states play a role in merger regulation, or is it all done at the federal level?
What is the difference between bidding regulation and antitrust regulation?
What two federal agencies enforce antitrust laws?
Do you think that enforcement of antitrust laws should be aggressive or lenient for health services industry mergers? Support your position.
What impact does the amount of synergistic benefit have on the likelihood of a merger being consummated?
Why is due diligence analysis so important to the merger process?
What are some roles that investment bankers play in mergers?
What are some defensive tactics that firms can use to resist hostile takeover attempts?
What is the difference between pure arbitrage and risk arbitrage?
Explain how researchers can study the effects of mergers on shareholder wealth.
Do mergers create value? If so, where does this value go?
Do the research results discussed in this section seem logical? Explain your answer.
What is capitation?
What are the primary differences between a conventional payment system and capitation?
What are the differences in provider incentives under conventional reimbursement and capitation?
What are the advantages of a capitated payment system?
What does current experience under managed care tell us about the look of the future healthcare delivery system?
Briefly, describe the following reimbursement systems and, using the descriptive approach, analyze the risks to providers under each system:a. Fee-for-serviceb. Discounted fee-for-servicec.
What is the basic source of financial risk?
Distinguish between objective and subjective financial risk.
What lessons can be learned from the quantitative risk assessment of prospective payment and capitation contracts?
What is the purpose of a risk pool?
Describe how a typical risk pool works.
Can a delivery system with multiple providers have more than one risk pool? Explain your answer.
What is a performance-based risk pool?
Define the following terms:a. Pure risksb. Speculative risksc. Demand risksd. Input riskse. Financial risksf. Property risks g. Personnel risks h. Environmental risksi. Liability risksj. Insurable
Briefly, describe one common approach to risk management.
Should a business insure itself against all of the insurable risks it faces?Explain your answer.
Why is it important that capitated providers establish reserves?
What are the two primary types of reserves?
What is stop-loss insurance?
Describe how a stop-loss insurance analysis is conducted.
What are the two components of interest rate risk?
Why do zero-coupon bonds that match the holding period eliminate interest rate risk?
What is duration?
How is duration used to immunize debt portfolios?
What is the difference between direct and indirect claims?
How did derivatives begin?
What is a natural hedge? Give some examples of natural hedges.
What is the difference between using derivatives for hedging as opposed to speculation?
Why are derivatives better than direct claims for speculation?
What is an option? A call option? A put option?
Define a call option’s exercise value. Why is the actual market price of a call option usually above its exercise value?
What are some factors that affect a call option’s value?
Briefly, describe the features of a futures contract.
How do options and futures differ?
How can futures contracts be used to hedge interest rate risk?
How can futures contracts be used to hedge input price risk?
What are swaps?
How can swaps be used to reduce risk? To lower borrowing costs?
How should derivatives be used in financial risk management? What problems can occur?
How are derivatives reported on a business’s financial statements?
What did Hallie Meyer do to keep Caffè Panna successful during the pandemic?
Netflix is transparent with executive salaries; guides team leader behavior with sayings like What is your North Star and Make decisions with context not control; and urges teams to be highly
What advice should Henry be given about how to improve his management skills?
Is there a role for personality characteristics such as authoritarianism and Machiavellianism in contemporary organizations? Explain your thinking.
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