Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In 2008, after identifying the weaknesses of the economy, the provincial government drew up a plan to transform Guangdong by focusing on the development of the Pearl River Delta. Manufacturers' relocation will free land for commercial and residential development, they believe, which will result in the urbanization of the province.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

And that's true in many areas: New devices, pharmaceuticals, and surgical techniques regularly get developed and incorporated into practice. Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Because organizations are increasingly focusing on early talent development to attract and retain young talent, it’s important to understand the best way to accelerate their growth as leaders. We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. This lab isn't located in Bangalore or Hyderabad (where Dr Reddy's is headquartered) but in.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Case in point, SNA conducted at Novartis helped reveal a pattern of communication — and the existence of parallel innovation efforts — that made it possible to combine teams before they reached a crucial stall point in the development of a new vaccine.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Because of Kendall Square’s concentration of talent, and its infrastructure, Novartis, the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company, moved nearly its entire research center here from Switzerland. A new wave of it began before the crash in 2008, stopped while the world caught its breath, and is now resuming. As it develops, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s materials science research department in 2008, Aquion now employs 130 workers, manufacturing batteries to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources. PG&E responded by developing the PowerPathway program , a partnership with local community college systems in selected U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

After all, India’s growth has slowed to a crawl, with GDP expanding by less than 5% in the last two years compared to 9% per annum in the five years before 2008. Over the past five years, India developed a reputation for being the most corrupt of the major economies, but that should diminish under the new administration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Develop Creative Discontent. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It could be an ideal location for healthcare organizations, but also for those in applied sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. Have the doors opened to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008. For a refresher on how PE works, see The Strategic Secret of Private Equity.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In 2008, after the global economy took a nosedive, the company that Lauren McAdams was working for went belly up. Lauren, who had several years of professional experience, a background in development, and a degree in business, was out of a job. ” One day he interviewed for a marketing support job at a pharmaceutical company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Positional advantage is sustainable in a classical environment: the environment is predictable and develops gradually without major disruptions. It is today the largest player in the CRO industry which it created and has been associated with the development or commercialization of the top fifty best-selling drugs currently on the market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Automated blockchain triggers and enforcements might have even helped entire nations avoid humanitarian disasters caused by economic transactions, such as the milk scandal of 2008 which claimed 300,000 victims, dis-incenting the use of forced child labor, or managing recent threats from ISIS to poison the European food supply.

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