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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Medium-term value drivers look forward to indicate whether a company can maintain and improve its revenue growth and ROIC over the next one to five years (or longer for companies, such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, that have long product cycles). Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. For entrepreneurs, why start something new in such an environment?

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Big Pharma's Mixed Modes of Growth

Harvard Business Review

Although many analysts and even executives have stated that established pharmaceutical firms are cutting their R&D budgets, the fact is that ongoing R&D expenditures on internal projects remain just as high in 2011 and 2012 as they have for the past decade — and those levels are historical highs.

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New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think

Harvard Business Review

Based on data covering the period from 2005 to 2011, it charts how globalization has evolved since the onset of the financial crisis at the global, regional, and national levels. Improving a country's domestic business environment can go a long way toward strengthening its international connections.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. As leaders, do physicians create a more sympathetic and productive work environment for other clinicians, because they are “one of them”?

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Needless to say, this approach has not worked in reaching lower and middle income segments of emerging markets that require price and marketing strategies that fit both consumers' ability to pay and the nature of the purchasing environment, which is often more diffuse than in the U.S. irketi in 2011 provided expansion in Turkey.

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

Strategy Driven

Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. But even in such an environment, capabilities are essential – for example, working with the government to ensure distribution, or negotiating labor contracts to secure continued access to talent. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.