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How We Built a New Company Culture

Harvard Business Review

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. To save the 20-year-old company, I had to get it operating like a start-up. The new NPS needed an entrepreneurial, creative, and cooperative culture.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology.

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