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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

When does pharmaceutical pricing become price gouging? Those in the heteronomy stage will absorb the values of the organization, particularly when it advances their careers. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world.

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

Leading Blog

The stories are absorbing and alone are worth the price of the book.) 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. Corporate leaders need to absorb career risks….

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Former HR director with Pepsi Central Eastern Europe, and gained HR expertise at PLIVA Pharmaceutical Company (now part of Teva Group). Formerly in sales and sales management for pharmaceutical organizations including GlaxoSmithKline UK and US. and The Career Playbook.

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. ” Pharmaceutical company: “ Preserving and improving human life.” ” Discount retailer: “ Making our customers’ lives better through lower prices, greater selection, and higher value.” We want to make a difference.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

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Four Reasons to Believe in a Second American Century

Harvard Business Review

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. Because of Kendall Square’s concentration of talent, and its infrastructure, Novartis, the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company, moved nearly its entire research center here from Switzerland. How’d that work out?)

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7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them

Harvard Business Review

One day, Alvin approaches Manuel and tells him he wants to make a major career shift. Why it works: Delivered in a calm and candid tone, this sentence can save a career or life-altering moment from becoming a decimating event with an alienating outcome by: Giving the other person a moment to brace themselves. Manuel says nothing.

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