Chester Chambers, MBA, PhD
Clinical Professor Information Technology, Operations Management, & Business Analytics
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With deep knowledge and experience in finance, healthcare, and public speaking, Chester is the egghead who translates scholarly gobbledygook into plain English.
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Latest Posts About Personal Finance
If the Earth is Round, Why is Your Plan so Complex?
Vol 3, Issue 14. Quarter 3 - 2026. Let’s restate the idea from the title in a different way. If you truly understand something you don’t need complex tools to explain it. The contrapositive of that statement is that if you do need complex tools to explain it, then you...
The Magic of Averages
Vol 3, Issue 13. Quarter 3 - 2026. Apparently, it is absolutely necessary for me to define one of the simplest ideas that I can even think of – the humble average. I say this because I so often hear people speak as though they have no idea what an average is. Let’s...
How the Scam Started
Vol 3, Issue 12. Quarter 2 - 2026. Consider the human side of the thief. Let’s look at the story of a short guy from Brooklyn. Just for fun let’s call him Ernie. Ernie is a young investment analyst looking to start his own asset management business, handling...
Latest Posts About Healthcare
We need a process to improve a healthcare process
Almost any short visit to your nearest hospital will leave you with the notion that something here can be done better. Waiting times abound even though many people seem to be doing nothing. Patients spend hours in a waiting room to get into the Emergency room....
Simulate, Simulate, Simulate
Imagine you are a new Physician working in a group practice as part of an Academic Medical Center (AMC). You may be surprised to learn that you are soon expected to play a leading role in managing the day-to-day process flows of the clinic. This may sound strange...
You can’t outrun the law
At some point during the first session of our courses on Operations Management, Process Improvement, or Managing Health Care Processes we find the need to understand and utilize Little's Law. This refers to anobservation by John Little which states that the long-term...
Latest Posts About Public Speaking
Four Big Ideas to Manage Speaking Anxiety
An irrational fear of public speaking is called “Glossophobia.” It is an anxiety disorder that causes powerful physical and emotional symptoms. These can stem from many causes including childhood trauma, varied neurological issues, and transference from other issues....
Hear That Mr. Anderson – That is the Sound of Inevitability
Vol I, Issue 15. Quarter 3 - 2025. I woke up on Aug 3 with a few sentences rattling around in my head. This wasn’t really news to me. This is the way that most short speeches that I write start to form. As much as I wanted to shake it, the voice kept coming back...
My Favorite Sample Speech – Winner: District 50: International Speech Contest; May 2025. “Wrestle With the Question”
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