http://managementandbeyond.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:15:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignright" width="288" caption="Today's Benefit News"][/caption] This Blog is dedicated to update various chapters in my new text, Benefits and Beyond-A Comprehensive and Strategic Approach to Retirement, Health Care, and More (Sage, 2009), and to enrich its pedagogical content. Current Blog Posts are updated weekly. It also includes some discussion of ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=849 The Posts on Health Care Reform are related to Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of the book, Benefits and Beyond. This Post includes a description of the major points of the recently passed health care reform legislation. My purpose is to describe and explain these features for teaching purposes - not ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=512 What does the law mean? [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Kathleen Sebelius, Sec'y, HHS"][/caption] Issues for Discussion Professor Thomas E. Murphy (Last revised September 5, 2010) The Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services will be interpreting and enforcing most of the new health reform act. From time-to-time ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=752 Affordable Care Act of March 23, 2010 Click on the above site to find some diagrams illustrating how the PPA and AHA works. See the full summary of the Act in the Posts above including some issues for group discussion. TEM http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=731 What follows is "My View" on health care reform. It is an attempt to match the data and underlying problem with health care - all of which points to excessive costs -- and a relevant solution. My view is that the recently passed Patient Protection Act of 2010 is not ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=440 Based in part upon our experiences in living and working in Europe and the Middle East, we have developed a new course for the Miami University MBA program that involves teaching and practicing what should be considered key management competencies for global managers. The competencies include: managing in a culturally ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=805 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="463" caption="What is the financial return?"][/caption] Benefits and the Allocation of Capital - last revised August 24, 2010 One of the unique features of Benefits and Beyond is Chapter 10 which discusses how sponsors of benefits should use data and metrics to measure the effectiveness of the various benefit ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=972 Note: we have identified websites where, in most cases, the referenced article originally appeared. Often, however, the URL for the article has changed. In this case, you can use the topic or the title of the piece to search the publisher's site for the specific article. In other cases, you ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=32 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="111" caption="On site clinic"] [/caption] Last Updated: August 18, 2010 There is a new "supply side" business model spreading across American. It can be found in supermarkets, drug stores, and shopping centers. It is the mini or little clinic that serves basic health care needs at very low costs. Typically ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=162 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="113" caption="U.S. District Court"][/caption] Chapter 9, Benefit Legal Compliance, ERISA, IRC, and More. This Post Last Updated: August 5, 2010 ___________________________________ Add at page 263: Fiduciary duty to monitor 401(k) costs. There has been a lot of discussion about the duty of a pension plan fiduciary to monitor and control administrative costs. ... http://managementandbeyond.com/blog/?p=164