Ira Magaziner was born on November 8,1947 and is an American advisor.
15 Facts About Ira Magaziner
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Ira Magaziner was born in New York City, New York, US.
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Ira Magaziner excelled academically at Brown and in 1969 was named valedictorian of his class.
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Ira Magaziner was named a Rhodes Scholar upon graduation and studied political philosophy and economics under Isaiah Berlin at Balliol College of the University of Oxford.
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Ira Magaziner soon abandoned the project, after the group recognized that the effects of foreign business competition on the local manufacturing base would undercut their efforts.
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Ira Magaziner then determined that a greater understanding of business was necessary to promote broad-based social and economic reforms.
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Ira Magaziner went on to work for the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, London and Tokyo from 1973 to 1979.
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Ira Magaziner founded Telesis in 1979, sold the company in 1986 to Towers Perrin Inc and managed the US strategy practice for Towers Perrin from 1986 to 1989.
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Ira Magaziner has authored two books on business strategy and industrial policy: Minding America's Business and The Silent War.
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Ira Magaziner is best known for leading, along with Hillary Clinton, the failed Task Force to Reform Health Care in the early Clinton administration, which aimed to implement a managed competition regime for the health insurance industry, and to establish community rated insurance pools to cut costs for small businesses and the uninsured.
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Ira Magaziner was court ordered to pay $285,864 to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, in 1997 by a federal judge for alleged cover up of whether the Task Force to Reform Health Care hired non-governmental employees and therefore had to release documents from their strategic deliberations upon public request.
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Ira Magaziner was cleared of all allegations and the fine was overturned by unanimous decision of the United States Court of Appeals on August 25,1999.
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Ira Magaziner stayed in the administration and worked to develop an E-Commerce policy initiative with OSTP staff and industry advisors.
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Since 2002, Ira Magaziner is the chief executive officer and vice chairman of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which works to save lives in low and middle income countries by helping people gain access to essential medicines and health services.
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Seth Ira Magaziner was elected General Treasurer of Rhode Island in 2014.