Speaking Engagements
Home Brief Biography Speaking Engagements Consulting Engagements Current Consulting Programs Conference Papers Publications Research Public Service		Professor Young has spoken to a wide variety of audiences, including: National Council for International Health American Hospital Association Canadian Association of Social Work National Hospice Institute Hospital Corporation of America Center for Public Health Research, Mexico City Conjunto de Administratores de Hospitales Catalanes, Andorra Ministry of Public Health, Mexico City U.S. Veterans Administration American Medical Group Association World Health Forum, Interlaken, Switzerland, Doctoral Program, University of Pisa, Italy Doctoral Program, University of Forli, Italy Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, Geriatrics Educational and Strategic Planning Retreat, Jasper, Alberta, Canada Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine Association of American Medical Colleges
CURRENT TOPICS Professor Young’s most recent speaking engagements have been on the following topics (Each speech is about one hour in length):
For General Business Organizations
Accounting Standards, Ethical Codes, and Greed: Can there Ever be a Truly Independent Auditor? Discusses the real reasons that underlie the accounting scandals of the past two decades and proposes a way to assure more independent and reliable audits. Creative Strategies for Cost Control. Based on his book, A Manager’s Guide to Creative Cost Cutting: 181 Ways to Build the Bottom Line. Moves from some simple techniques to a more complete set of guidelines that companies can use to make cost control a “way of life.” Measuring and Reporting on Intangible Assets. Discusses some easy ways to both measure and report to shareholders on a company’s intangible assets. Contains a framework that distinguishes between the easily measurable and reported (such as internally-developed patents) to the more amorphous (such as “brand”). You Can Control Your Health Care Costs! Focuses in the corporate sector, discussing some techniques that they can use to be more effective in controlling their health care costs. Based, in part, on the experience of General Electric.
For Health Care Organizations
Management Control in Academic Medical Centers. A talk for physicians on techniques for managing the clinical side of a department’s activities, using a “budget driver” approach to building budgets and managing revenues and costs. Managing Organizational Culture in Academic Medicine. A talk for physicians based on his paper “The Six Levers for Managing Organizational Culture,” Business Horizons, September-October 2000. What’s Wrong with the U.S. Health Care System? A talk for European audiences who want to know more about the U.S. health care system, and why, despite the passage of legislation granting universal access, the system will continue to experience problems. Nonprofits Need Surplus, Too. Based on his article in the Harvard Business Review with the same title. Discusses why most hospitals and other nonprofit organizations need to earn a financial surplus, and how to determine the appropriate amount. Myths and Realities in Medicare’s Policies for Graduate Medical Education: Yes we Can Compute the Cost of GME!” Discuses several erroneous assumptions about graduate medical education, and describes a methodology for computing its cost.

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Public Service

Professor Young has spoken to a wide variety of audiences, including:

National Council for International Health
American Hospital Association
Canadian Association of Social Work
National Hospice Institute
Hospital Corporation of America
Center for Public Health Research, Mexico City
Conjunto de Administratores de Hospitales Catalanes, Andorra
Ministry of Public Health, Mexico City
U.S. Veterans Administration
American Medical Group Association
World Health Forum, Interlaken, Switzerland,
Doctoral Program, University of Pisa, Italy
Doctoral Program, University of Forli, Italy
Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, Geriatrics
Educational and Strategic Planning Retreat, Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine
Association of American Medical Colleges

CURRENT TOPICS

Professor Young’s most recent speaking engagements have been on the following topics (Each speech is about one hour in length):

For General Business Organizations

Accounting Standards, Ethical Codes, and Greed: Can there Ever be a Truly Independent Auditor?

Discusses the real reasons that underlie the accounting scandals of the past two decades and proposes a way to assure more independent and reliable audits.

Creative Strategies for Cost Control.
Based on his book, A Manager’s Guide to Creative Cost Cutting: 181 Ways to Build the Bottom Line. Moves from some simple techniques to a more complete set of guidelines that companies can use to make cost control a “way of life.”

Measuring and Reporting on Intangible Assets.
Discusses some easy ways to both measure and report to shareholders on a company’s intangible assets. Contains a framework that distinguishes between the easily measurable and reported (such as internally-developed patents) to the more amorphous (such as “brand”).

You Can Control Your Health Care Costs!
Focuses in the corporate sector, discussing some techniques that they can use to be more effective in controlling their health care costs. Based, in part, on the experience of General Electric.

For Health Care Organizations

Management Control in Academic Medical Centers.
A talk for physicians on techniques for managing the clinical side of a department’s activities, using a “budget driver” approach to building budgets and managing revenues and costs.
Managing Organizational Culture in Academic Medicine.
A talk for physicians based on his paper “The Six Levers for Managing Organizational Culture,” Business Horizons, September-October 2000.
What’s Wrong with the U.S. Health Care System?
A talk for European audiences who want to know more about the U.S. health care system, and why, despite the passage of legislation granting universal access, the system will continue to experience problems.
Nonprofits Need Surplus, Too.
Based on his article in the Harvard Business Review with the same title. Discusses why most hospitals and other nonprofit organizations need to earn a financial surplus, and how to determine the appropriate amount.
Myths and Realities in Medicare’s Policies for Graduate Medical Education: Yes we Can Compute the Cost of GME!”
Discuses several erroneous assumptions about graduate medical education, and describes a methodology for computing its cost.