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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

Leading Blog

Yu examines pharmaceutical companies like Novartis and the soap company P&G to see how they moved across knowledge disciplines to leverage or create new knowledge on how their product was made. As P&G chairman William Cooper Proctor said in 1933, “This [synthetic detergent] may ruin the soap business.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. Despite having solid internal anti-corruption rules in place, the pharmaceutical giant wound up facing criminal investigations for bribing doctors and foreign officials , eventually paying a $489 million fine. Picture this. Consider the case of GSK.

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