Len Zwelling

The Undoing Project By Leonard Zwelling This is the title of a new book. It was written by Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of Moneyball and The Big Short along with many books that have in common the explication of complexity. The new book tells the story of Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky. The two […]

Emoluments and No-Confidence 101 Or Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gun Fight By Leonard Zwelling e·mol·u·ment noun: emolument; plural noun: emoluments a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office. The Emoluments Clause is Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution. It prohibits any “Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the

Amateurs Need Not Apply, But They Often Get Chosen By Leonard Zwelling My last administrative job at MD Anderson, or for sure the last the leadership would let me have, was as the Director of the Pharmaceutical Development Center. This was a small group of faculty drug developers that was part of Experimental Therapeutics. At

Silly Presidents, Silly Precedents By Leonard Zwelling It’s really getting hard to take some of our leaders seriously. The President-elect of the United States won’t agree to have a news conference, but will communicate like a 14-year old girl using 140-character tweets concerning issues of international importance. He misstates the truth (I will follow WSJ’s

Are Layoffs A Sign Of Good Or Bad Management? By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/MD-Anderson-set-to-announce-layoffs-today-10837056.php http://abc13.com/news/watch-live-md-anderson-announces-layoffs/1687649/ http://inside3.mdanderson.org/streams/FullVideoPlayer.cfm?mediaID=9AB90015-DA18-407E-B23B-3DBACA6A360D http://www.click2houston.com/news/md-anderson-to-address-layoff-announcement-thursday http://abc13.com/business/md-anderson-cancer-center-to-cut-800-900-jobs/1687649/ Isn’t that the essential question? When any organization stops turning a profit, even a non-profit, that’s a sure sign that those in charge of that organization are either spending too much, not bringing in enough, or both. At

Health Care Reform And MD Anderson: Can The ACA Explain Some Of The Financial Problem? By Leonard Zwelling Abby Goodnough and Robert Pear authored this long feature in the NY Times on January 3 that describes the lasting effects of the Affordable Care Act. These are the effects that even the GOP pledge to repeal

The Lesson Of Putin’s Inaction: Memo To The MD Anderson Faculty By Leonard Zwelling Finally, after multiple examples of Russian cyberwar incursions into America’s infrastructure and political processes, President Obama acted on December 29. He threw out some Russian officials, most of whom were probably spies, and closed down two facilities that harbored Russian agents.

Settlements: My Take By Leonard Zwelling Much has been made of the United States’ position to allow the UN Security Council vote against the Israeli settlements in the West Bank to stand. Usually the Americans would have vetoed such a resolution, but the US abstained allowing its passage. Now Secretary of State John Kerry has

A New Web Site: MD Anderson Blogs, Healthcare Reform And Politics: My Takes By Leonard Zwelling Although I will continue to post blogs on lenzwelling.blogspot.com, you will soon be directed to the new web site, www.lenzwelling.com. This will have the blogs as well as pictures, my references and cv, and soon ways to buy the

The Real MD Anderson: It’s Not About The Money By Leonard Zwelling I arrived in Houston a reluctant recruit, following my wife to her dream job at MD Anderson. I soon learned I had also landed a dream job of my own. I was recruited to do translational research, biochemistry with clinical relevance. My Division