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. Various studies and surveys have indicated that age discrimination is a pervasive problem in the job market.

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QAspire

JANUARY 24, 2010

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. Life Lesson on Endurance Other Links to this Post QAspire Blog - Quality, Management, Leadership & Life! with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Don’t Kill It!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I love my career in competitive strategy, research, and teaching. As a child I felt no particular interest in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, computers, oil and gas, health and beauty aids, medical devices, airlines, or shipbuilding, all of which I’ve simulated or war-gamed. It engages my mind.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

A lot of talented people grapple with the disruption of having to switch jobs or careers and figuring out how their current profession’s skills can be applied in a fulfilling new way. Since then, many friends and strangers have sought my advice about career paths outside of newspaper journalism. Consider the legal field.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

But don’t assume your impressive résumé will guarantee you an offer, says Berrin Erdogan, a professor of management at Portland State University and the lead author of a recent study on the subject. “Hiring managers are not always eager to bring on someone who is overqualified.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

I learned the critical importance of networking, and discovered my natural aversion to it, early in my career. That night, because of the small turnout, I had the pleasure and advantage of engaging in one-on-one conversations with some of the company's top executives, an experience that would prove crucially important in advancing my career.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. And don’t delegate purpose to marketing. ” Pharmaceutical company: “ Preserving and improving human life.” ” Pharmaceutical company: “ Preserving and improving human life.” We want to make a difference.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

Since how you leave your current job can be as important to your career as how you perform in the next one, you need to know the answers to these questions. The job market may be bleak, but that doesn't mean you're stuck. Priscilla Claman, president of Career Strategies, Inc., Then reality-check that with the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?" The less obvious, but equally culpable, individual is often the manager who fumbles the job of taking this employee to task promptly. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

She kicked off her October management team meeting, which I was attending, by reading the following passage from my book: The dangers of taking too much risk are very clear. Rashid, the COO, commented, “Sure we’re struggling, but that’s just the market, we’ll bounce back.” We’re reminded of them in the news every day.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The region with the greatest board-level skills gap is Asia, where risk management and M&A adeptness are sorely needed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

They are empowered by – and in frequent communication with – senior management. Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b Japanese pharmaceutical Eisai used them to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients. Shared Spaces.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

The best managers know when it’s time to increase your pay for a job well done. And how can you make it easier for your manager to say yes? It can be difficult to approach your manager for a raise. It can be difficult to approach your manager for a raise. Managing Yourself Article. How do you prepare for it?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

of senior management and executive roles of S&P 500 firms, 2.2% 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. Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. But innovation is an elusive beast. Tolerance of Failure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2011

Mao Zedong may have famously proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky," but many of today's Chinese career women feel their high-flying ambitions have feet of clay. Yeah, we hold up half the sky," recently quipped a female senior manager for a multinational pharmaceutical company, "but there are 5,000 years of history dragging us back.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

“When I joined the company, the front line management jobs were the best,” the CEO told us. He had started his career in one of those jobs, as a country manager, and worked his way up. One senior manager told us: “You never miss it. ” Today, he confessed, “it is the worst job.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

They went deep into three international firms with reputations for excellence – one a law firm, one a public accounting firm, one a management consultancy – conducting over 100 face-to-face interviews with people working within them. In the words of Empson and Alvehus they have gained “legitimacy to lead through market success.”

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