NYU Langone's remarkable transformation into a leading healthcare system is rooted in strategic leadership, a data-driven culture, and innovative practices. Under the guidance of Dean Dr. Robert Grossman and Board Chairman Ken Langone, the institution shifted from dysfunction to efficiency, emphasizing data transparency, outpatient network expansion, and operational excellence. Their successful model demonstrates how disciplined management and a relentless focus on quality can elevate a hospital system, even in competitive and challenging environments. This case offers valuable lessons for rebuilding and modernizing healthcare organizations nationwide amidst financial and operational pressures.

This article explores how powerful networks and think tanks, including the Koch-SPN coalition and the Silicon Valley PayPal Mafia, are converging technologies like blockchain, stablecoins, and AI with federal education reforms. They aim to privatize and digitize school choice subsidies using digital wallets, stablecoins, and social credit analytics, establishing a comprehensive digital infrastructure that links education finance with a social credit economy under AI governance. These developments are driven by venture capital investments and government contracts, with the goal of creating a centralized, surveilled, and programmable educational funding system intertwined with blockchain and AI technologies, ultimately reshaping the landscape of public and private education funding and control.

OPINION A bus bearing Harvard University's seal is reflected in a window in Cambridge on July 2.SOPHIE PARK/NYT Kirsten Weld is a professor of history at Harvard University and president of the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Andrew Manuel Crespo is a pro...

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The recent increase in the endowment tax for private wealthy universities in the U.S. is causing financial strain, leading some institutions to lay off staff, freeze hiring, and consider cuts in financial aid. The new tiered tax system, set to begin in 2026, could significantly impact top schools like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, which are already facing budget challenges from reduced federal research funding and new tax obligations. Universities are adjusting by reducing budgets and implementing layoffs, all while trying to continue supporting financial aid for lower-income students.

Business President Donald Trump signed the tax increase into law last month as part of his signature spending bill. An woman walks past Rice University's Lovett Hall, the oldest building on campus, Jan. 23, 2001, in Houston.

This week, the chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY), where I teach, was summoned to testify at a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, alongside top administrators from UC Berkeley and Georgetown. Congressional Republicans once again smeared universit...

Getty Images Plus Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily.The federal student loan program is set to undergo massive changes following the July 4 passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, leaving millions of p...

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