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The State Of University Spinouts In The UK

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers have tracked over 50,000 high-growth businesses across the UK since 2011, with 1,628 of these identified as spinouts. “And it’s also true in terms of the exit successes of these spinout businesses,” the authors explain. “10.4% of the UK’s spinouts have exited (i.e. of the wider high-growth population.”

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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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Pfizer’s Straight Talk on Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Pfizer, the multinational pharmaceutical giant, has become increasingly intentional about shaping its culture. You can see evidence of Pfizer’s commitment in Ian Read’s letter to stakeholders the year after he became CEO: In 2011, we thoroughly explored what our culture is and how it needs to evolve. Pfizer people care.

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Adding Too Much Value

Marshall Goldsmith

A classic problem of smart, successful people is Adding Too Much Value. It is extremely difficult for successful people to listen to other people tell them something that they already know without communicating somehow that (a) they already knew it and (b) they know a better way. I asked my coaching client J.P.

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Getting at the Heart of Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

I wrote this post in September, 2011. And, if we expect them to bring all of themselves to work and dedicate their energies to the success of our enterprises, we must also care about them. Ms Ingraham worked as an Administrative Assistant for a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey. There are lessons here worth repeating. .

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. What started as a two member team was now a successful fitness center running round the clock with a number of trained instructors and some very good facilities. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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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? In the US, Cipla sells its products generic pharmaceutical companies such as Teva and Eagle.

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