Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. The Lipitor story seems to be about a managed end: the highly anticipated demise (due to the expiration of its patent last Nov. Apple use life-cycle management to explore a new way to drive the business and business model forward. Both Pfizer and.

Disintermediation 15

Disintermediation Industry Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2×2 matrix below.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Over the same period, pharmaceutical exports have doubled. Victor Albrow/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

While Guangdong's exports accounted for as much as 37% of China's exports by 2000, its share dropped to 28% in 2011. The province's exports growth rate, which was 26% in 2010, fell to 22% in the first nine months of 2011, and it has continued to decline ever since. Look at the data.

GDP 11

GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Companies included in the ETF include major airlines, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology. After our meeting at the SSE, we had lunch with Dean Xiongwen Lu and Professor Cheng-Hua Tzeng of the Fudan School of Management. Eccles is a professor of management practice at HBS. Stay tuned.

Long-term 14

Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

And that should make it easier for IBM to sell the question-answering technology in hospitals, law firms, pharmaceutical labs, call centers, and every other area in which people are grappling with finding answers in ever larger sets of data. Watson's offspring will be zealous research assistants, not managers.

Learning Curve 11

Learning Curve Pharmaceuticals Call Center Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." The pressure on the company by the investing community (among others) was so severe that it eventually split into two, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions in January of 2011.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

” Given research that shows anger’s impact on cardiovascular health , it is critical that leaders be able to manage their anger, and put themselves in others’ shoes. “Thanks to meditation I have developed patience.” I would just get angry if they did not perform according to my expectations.

CEO 8

CEO Emotional Intelligence Cooper Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

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.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Because of their relationships with banks, PE funds can get financing much cheaper than target companies could under their current management. At the same time, there are certain ways LBOs can actually make it easier for firms to invest in the long term.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67