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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”, replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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Eight Essentials for Scaling Up Without Screwing Up

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Many of these lessons, Huggy and I would be the first to admit, could be books in themselves – and all deserve their own blog posts. I’ll try to cover them all eventually, so check back from time to time.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets. In 2006, Pfizer directly redeemed the value built by PCH by selling the business to Johnson & Johnson for an unprecedented US$16.6

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Scaling: The Problem of More

Harvard Business Review

Since my Stanford colleague Huggy Rao and I decided several years ago to study scaling (it’s the topic of our forthcoming book Scaling Up Excellence ), we have heard about many others – so many that we thought, early on, that we might need to put a finer point on which form we hoped to shed light on.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

The proportion of workers with HDHPs (deductibles of more than $1,300/$2,600 for an individual/family) increased from 6% to 22% between 2006 and 2018. They may have to address the underlying reasons for rising health care premiums, rather than just shifting more of those expenditures off their own books. Insight Center.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Compliance is crucial for pharmaceutical makers such as Abbott and Amgen – a “ Form 483 ” warning from an FDA inspector can shut down a drug facility in an instant and even land top executives in jail. In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

You can see what he means: our capacity to produce data on everything requires packaging; otherwise, it is like finding oneself in a library where all the books have been disassembled into piles of paragraphs, sentences and words. The researchers looked at systematic reviews conducted between 2006 and 2013.