Author Archives: Anand Anandalingam

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation around 33,000 died from overdosing on opioids in 2015; the New York Times estimated it at 60,000. New Hampshire and West Virginia are among the states with the highest per capita opioid death rates. In July 2017, FDA Director Scott Gottlieb wrote that opioid addiction had become “FDA’s biggestContinueContinue reading ““Opioid Crisis” vs “War on Drugs””

Part 1 spoke to the need for change in leadership of the Democratic Party. Besides leadership, we also teach strategy, tactics (operations and supply chain management, and marketing) and financing (finance and accounting) in a business school. With change in leadership, there is a better chance for improvement in these business attributes. Strategy generally involvesContinueContinue reading “MBA Guide for the Democratic Party – Part 2”

Having lost the recent Presidential election, failed to get a majority in the Senate or the House, and lost 65% of the governorships not to mention multiples of local elections in the United States, the Democratic Party really needs to revive itself in order to get back some modicum of power in this country. IfContinueContinue reading “MBA Guide for the Democratic Party – Part 1”

Dear Mr. Trump, Let me start by confessing that I was an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton for a variety of reasons and have spent the last several months in dismay and depression about the results of the Presidential election. I still cannot believe that blue collar Americans, especially in the so-called “rust belt”, votedContinueContinue reading “What American Workers Need is Re-Training, not False Promises”