Question

Many of you do not know that businesses employ quite a few economists. One source for information about the various roles these economists play is the National Association for Business Economics (NABE, http://www.nabe.com). Among other activities, NABE members can join one (or more) roundtable groups. A list is available at http://www.nabe.com/rt/index.html. For this discussion, access both these sites and look for some of the interesting jobs economists hold. Choose two that you might be interested in pursuing and explain what it is and why you might be interested in that field. To get the full scope of possibilities, you will need to read everyone's post.

Answer 1

On eof most interesting jobs on NABE is Senior Manager - World Health Economics wherein following job responsibilities are assigned :

• Develop global Health Economics and Outcomes research (HEOR), strategic plan and marketing initiative
• Execute and implement core strategic plans and look for new untapped markets
• Business intelligence of existing data
• Negotiations with health materials vendors and collaboration
• Lead teams and maintain key relationships with senior opinion leaders

The above roles is highly exciting as it is middle management roles with various responsibilities pertaining to ownership, teamwork, people management, leadership and negotiation and involves overall technical learning relating to marketing, financial and operational Areas.