Remove 2011 Remove Globalization Remove Pharmaceuticals Remove Technology
article thumbnail

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. As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry.

ROIC 62
article thumbnail

India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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. Tata Motors appointed Tim Leverthon, who previously led R&D at BMW, as head of its global R&D.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research.

article thumbnail

The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile behemoths such as McKinsey and BCG, to maintain their above-industry-average growth rates and keep their global office networks humming, have broadened what they do and moved down the food chain. Monitor & Co., co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days.

article thumbnail

Lipitor and iPhone 4s: Setting the Stage for Industry Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S's story seems to be about a new beginning: the highly anticipated launch of the latest version of a blockbuster consumer-technology product. Technology observers were initially underwhelmed by the iPhone 4S. Both Pfizer and.

article thumbnail

China, South Africa Advance Sustainability Efforts

Harvard Business Review

Companies included in the ETF include major airlines, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology. His friend, Dr. Shiping Liu, founder and CEO of Global Business Intelligence Consulting Co., Daniela Saltzman is an MBA student at HBS, class of 2011. Stay tuned. Eccles is a professor of management practice at HBS.

article thumbnail

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

Strategy Driven

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. He works with global Fortune 500 companies to help them achieve major business transformations. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.