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

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Cipla, an India-based producer of low cost antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is one of the biggest success stories in the pharma industry. What's the reason for Cipla's success and should it worry the likes of Merck and Hoffman La Roche? It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5

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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business Review

Still early in their health-care-modernization programs, many nations in the Middle East and Asia are already struggling with double-digit annual increases in health care expenditures, well above the rate of expansion of their gross domestic products. Over the same period, pharmaceutical exports have doubled. Insight Center.

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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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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. Encouraged by parents who suffered the hardships of a world war, we worked hard to do better, to make a success of ourselves. They know we can well afford their products. So do pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Pfizer. December 2011.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

These preparatory steps are of particular importance for carve-outs that are not full-fledged business units with profit & loss responsibility, such as R&D centers or production units whose only customer is their parent. Successful spin-offs tend to have a management team that comprises both insiders and outsiders.

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Scaling: The Problem of More

Harvard Business Review

Take Citrus Lane CEO Mauria Finley, whose company was experiencing some growing pains, appropriately enough; the startup sends monthly packages of great baby products to moms. Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. After raising $5.1