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Autumn.2013Final_layout 8/1/13 12:46 PM Page 2 MBA health care management concentration returns MBA students who plan to seek careers as professional managers in health care organizations, including hospitals, long-term care facilities and insurance companies, can now take advantage of a newly resurrected concentration in health care management. The concentration also will be valuable to students in the Professional MBA program who plan to transition to the health care sector or are clinicians who want to move into leadership roles, as well as those enrolled in dual degree programs that focus on health care and human services, including MD/MBA, PharmD/MBA, DDS/MBA, MPH/MBA and MSW/MBA. In step with the School of Management's focus on key initiatives in leadership, entrepreneurship and health care, the new concentration will cover topics in clinical leadership, innovative approaches to industry challenges, health analytics, health informatics and the tie between quality and cost. "The combination of an MBA education with specific training in health care management is a valuable From left: Alain Nguyen, PharmD/MBA '13, Todd Carter, MBA '13, Holly Marriner, Vinay Agarwal, MBA '13, and Natasha Allard, MBA '14, in one of five School of Management Alumni Association videos that parody the popular AT&T "It's Not Complicated" ads. 2 Buffalo Business Autumn 2013 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................. Startups asset to graduates seeking to enter an increasingly competitive, complex and demanding job sector," says Katherine Ferguson, associate director of academic programs in the School of Management. The MBA concentration in health care management is also a key element in the School of Management's role in the university's Realizing UB 2020 initiative, which includes health as one of four key themes of the plan's academic strategy. x Alumni pride: "It's Not Complicated" Earlier this year, the School of Management Alumni Association launched a series of videos spoofing the popular AT&T "It's Not Complicated" ads. You know the ones—they feature a deadpan moderator asking kids to answer questions like, "What's better: bigger or smaller?" But our videos have a twist. In a turn of the childsized table, the School of Management videos feature UB MBAs answering questions from kids. Starring in the videos are Vinay Agarwal, MBA '13, Natasha Allard, MBA '14, Todd Carter, MBA '13, Alain Nguyen, PharmD/MBA '13, and Sarah Tanbakchi, JD/MBA '14. The moderators were Holly, Norah and Reid Marriner, all children of Deidre Marriner, associate director for undergraduate advising. Special thanks to Mark Bortz, MBA '13, for his work with the team. Watch the videos for yourself at mgt.buffalo.edu/alumnicity or scan the QR code with a reader app on your mobile device. Then, share the "alumnicity" with your friends! x