The Tolan Center for Healthcare Opportunities

Explore the healthcare operator career path. Join us for a healthcare session offered with the Polsky speaker series Driving Growth: A Speaker Series on Operating in a Private Equity and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (PE/ETA) Context.

Guest Rachel Green is CEO of TEAM Services Group, a provider of non-medical home care, household employment solutions, and financial management services for seniors and individuals with disabilities. Green will share her road to becoming a CEO in healthcare and the things she has learned from the nearly 10-year operating experience she has gained.

November 12, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:pm | Hybrid
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Join us for an alumni conversation with healthcare entrepreneur Jonathan Hirsch, AB '07. Jonathan is Chief Strategy and Growth Officer for Paradigm Health, a platform that enables equitable access to trials for all patients, while enhancing trial efficiency and reducing the barriers to participation for healthcare providers. He joins healthcare advisor Anna Levchuk, MBA '08, for an alumni conversation hosted by the Chicago Booth Tolan Center for Healthcare

November 19, 2026 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Virtual event
The target audience for this event is Chicago Booth alumni, but students are also welcome to attend.

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Join the Tolan Center for Healthcare as Christopher Stewart, Associate Professor of Accounting and FMC Faculty Scholar at Chicago Booth, shares his recent research findings.

Mergers between large companies typically raise concerns about reduced competition, but what happens when the merging firms are powerful buyers rather than sellers? A longstanding economic argument, frequently invoked by merging firms and recognized by antitrust authorities, is that creating larger, more powerful buyers can counter the market power of dominant suppliers, leading to lower prices and ultimately benefiting consumers. However, in many industries, buyers and sellers operate within complex, multilayered supply chains, where changes in bargaining power can affect the behavior of other firms along the supply chain. Using one of the largest mergers in the U.S. prescription drug industry, we show that while greater buyer power can discipline suppliers and lower prices, it can also create unintended consequences throughout the supply chain that ultimately harm consumers.

Tuesday, December 1 | 12-1pm CT | Harper Center C-08

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