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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that I’d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. For most laid off job seekers, however, this new normal is a bitter pill to swallow and a difficult reality to accept.

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Bringing Science To Summer

The Horizons Tracker

One of the more interesting projects in this field is undertaken by pharmaceutical giant GSK, who offer their GSK Science in the Summer program to 2nd-6th graders to help engage them in STEM-related topics. The project focuses on exciting minority and vulnerable students, including migrants and homeless youngsters.

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Getting at the Heart of Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

I wrote this post in September, 2011. They have a strategy and goals. Ms Ingraham worked as an Administrative Assistant for a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey. It was inspired by the a story of a woman’s grief and the choices her employer made to deal with its impact on their workforce.

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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. Throughout its history, Pfizer's biggest product and the biggest-selling branded drug in pharmaceutical industry history, has delivered some confounding strategic lessons. 30) of a blockbuster prescription drug. Lipitor's Long Good-bye.

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. In the US, Cipla sells its products generic pharmaceutical companies such as Teva and Eagle. irketi in 2011 provided expansion in Turkey. Cipla is not a stranger to M&A either. laç Ticaret Anonim ?irketi

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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. But we would argue that credibility may also be signaled to important external stakeholders — future employees, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and so on.

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A Boomer's Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day | In the.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • June 19, 2011 • Life , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. So do pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Pfizer. To marketers, I say this: Go ahead, make a boomer’s day by helping us fulfill our lifestyle goals. June 21, 2011 at 5:57 pm. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011.

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