HR Digest

AUGUST 22, 2023

Recent reports suggest that Eli Lilly, a prominent pharmaceutical manufacturer, has been embroiled in a class-action lawsuit alleging discriminatory hiring practices against older job applicants. It is crucial for companies to embrace diversity and inclusion, valuing the experience and expertise that older professionals bring to the table.

Pharmaceuticals 52

Pharmaceuticals Survey Diversity Policies 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

We sought to understand the barriers they faced, their strategies for ascending through the organization, and the tools they used to manage significant organizational change efforts and navigate career risks. For example, one woman said, “I’m the best choice for this job, and I’m probably not on your radar screen.”

Execution 11

Execution Strategy Self-aware Career 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Now city and state leaders hope to use summer jobs programs to provide meaningful employment experiences that can improve teens’ job readiness and financial skills and boost their academic and career aspirations. For example, how much did it matter that youth were placed in a private-sector versus a community-based job?

Short-term 8

Short-term Participative Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

But we would argue that credibility may also be signaled to important external stakeholders — future employees, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and so on. Support for the idea that physician-leaders are advantaged in healthcare is consistent with observations from multiple other sectors.

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

In a recent Gallup poll , the pharmaceutical industry was the most widely disliked private industry, ranking even lower than lawyers. While virtually all pharma companies say they encourage risk, in reality the failure of individual drug-development programs frequently results in career damage or even job loss for the research teams involved.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8