N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Genentech is a global biotechnology company that created an entire drug discovery industry. This interview is presented by CEO Fellows in partnership with N2Growth- Request to join our exclusive leadership forum and have conversations with our Culture Champions here. Genentech has been wildly successful.

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. It is tempting to think that these numbers are scientifically derived and reliable, but often they come from sticking a finger in the air, and then justified after-the-fact in Excel.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Moreover, it’s hard. “I says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). and we like to stick to our knitting.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Are You Fitting Employee Personality Into Your Leadership Puzzle?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

For example, if you are a biotechnology fund manager who wants to communicate the importance of investing in biotechnology, you may think that your value is in your recent success in investing for shareholders, but if you are a reasonable person, you will likely also have doubts about this.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Broad experience A broader range of educational backgrounds within corporate leadership can offer valuable perspectives and a more expansive outlook when confronted with uncertain circumstances. Their advisory board consists of individuals with educational backgrounds in fields such as medical sciences, economics, journalism, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And biotechnology and medical devices are among the leading areas for venture capital funding.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. My senior executives and I made our values the language of leadership. Even individuals on NPS’s leadership team who didn’t embrace our values had to go.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. American companies send their most promising leaders abroad for global leadership assignments. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is P&G no longer an academy company?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Only then would he be able to get a seat at the table, and even take over leadership of the meetings. She was on the legal compliance team at a fast-growing biotechnology company. In an effort to not step on toes, he had been deferring to his boss on the restructuring — but his passive approach was undermining him.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Therefore, we declare that: From the dawn of human society, entrepreneurship – the creation of value by growing, or scaling , an enterprise – has always had a positive and unique social and economic impact on society; Great and successful entrepreneurs have always been, are, and will always be an essential part of great societies as job and wealth (..)

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Granted, this might seem like an obvious answer from someone who regularly writes and speaks about leadership. ” Listening to Qahtani’s words, I was reminded of two leaders and how their words served to shape how others viewed and responded to their leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

This industry is fueled by advances in chemistry and biotechnology that allow the use of pharmacological and cosmetic therapies in areas where, earlier, surgical intervention was needed. Convergence is not simply about combining ideas and technology; it is a primary leadership competency that allows organizations to design the right future.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Other nations may challenge that leadership in one industry or another, but nobody can match the breadth and depth of the United States. Publicly funded research , paired with a vigorous private sector has made the U.S. a leader in virtually every area of advanced technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

What would this leadership look like over time? pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

In one study, female and male MBA students were paired and asked to negotiate the purported purchase of a biotechnology plant. Stereotype threat thus creates a vicious circle of stress, anxiety, and reduced performance that maintains and exacerbates the under-representation of women in this country’s senior leadership positions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

We worked with a startup biotechnology company. There is much talk of authentic leadership, i.e., being yourself. It cannot be predicted or easily orchestrated. The very fact that it is an internal difference requires us to work hard to surface it and harness the benefits. We need to make it safe to try things multiple ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Hanguk’s leadership would be watching the project closely, because expansion to the Arab world was one of its top strategic objectives. . “They want you for the Seoul job.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials. A decade from now we may look back at China's 12th Five-Year Plan as the seminal document of the early 21st century. It pledges $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,

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