Wisconsin School of Business

Raise your hand if you've taken a business class." And none of us had.

Uh, so thankfully, Wisconsin also ran something called the Entrepreneurial, uh, Bootcamp during the summer, a week-long course for students and graduate students in the hard sciences, and it's an eight AM to eight PM week-long course on startups and entrepreneurship co-taught by John M- John Morgridge, who was the former CEO of Cisco Systems, and he brought in people from the Stanford Business School and the Wisconsin Business School, and we, like, learned how to do startups, and it was a great time.

And thankfully I did that because as I was graduating, synthetic biology kinda crashed.

The whole green revolution started to fall apart.

Actually, it's worse than that.

Between 2011 and 2024, the average insurance premium increased by three thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars, seventy-eight percent, while health spending per person rose by two thousand eight hundred and forty-four dollars, eighty-four percent, according to an analysis by Yale economist Zach Cooper and University of Wisconsin Business School professor Stuart Craig.

Over the same period, insurer markups, the portion of the premium that covers insurance companies' administrative costs and profits, decreased from nineteen percent to fifteen percent.

The growth in health spending accounted for ninety-one percent of the overall growth in average premiums.

Now for a look at how trends are playing out in Wisconsin's commercial real estate market.

We're joined by Mark Epley, teaching professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business.

Mark, thanks for joining us.

Delighted to be here.

Thanks again for joining us.

Delighted to be here.

Mark Epley is a teaching professor in the Department of Real Estate at Urban Land Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business.

Earlier, we heard from Kurt Paulson, professor of urban planning in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at UW-Madison.