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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Career Skills Health Care Pharmaceuticals 8

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. That brought me joy.

Career 8

Career Seminar Self-aware Telecommunications 8

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

DECEMBER 5, 2016

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. ’ It helped me think about the NYPL system and where my career could go here.” in less than five years.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

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.

Pharmaceuticals 17

Pharmaceuticals Conference Learning-by-Doing Strategic Planning 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

COO 11

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Evidence-based mindfulness strategies , such as meditation and controlled breathing, can empower new managers to navigate challenges including delivering a critical presentation, running a contentious meeting, or making a high-stakes strategic decision. It’s often the moment when many stars in the organization fail for the first time.

Belief Systems 8

Belief Systems Executive Coaching Stress Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

She recommends explaining your interest in terms of your career objectives.” Here are some possible strategies — along with some words of caution: Think big. A year later, Lauren was working as a temp to make ends meet when she applied to what was essentially a marketing assistant job. ” Tailor the job.

How To 10

How To Long-term Marketing Case Study 10

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.

How To 14

How To Reference Flextime Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Businesses, families, and individuals are ruined in shocking fashion—“150-year-old bank and pillar of Wall Street is gone in the blink of an eye”; “Major oil company loses $90 billion in market value in three months”; “Kite surfer tries his luck in a hurricane and slams into a building.” Risk management Strategy'

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Directors named industry knowledge, strategy, and financial-audit expertise as their strongest skill sets. One strategy might be investing in your own human capital to become the board member corporations need. But attaining one is far from easy. Methodology.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. I couldn't believe some of the people I was seeing from McKinsey," recalls a partner at another strategy firm. Among McKinsey's biggest clients in the 1990s were pharmaceuticals and financial-services companies.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 13

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. By mid-career, they started strategically taking on risky assignments to become more visible. .” corporations.

Execution 9

Execution Strategy Self-aware Career 9

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.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

He had started his career in one of those jobs, as a country manager, and worked his way up. “There is no delegation and little tolerance for excuses,” Jo Van Biesbroeck, former head of strategy and one of AB InBev’s longest-serving employees, told us recently. ” Today, he confessed, “it is the worst job.”

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