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

JULY 28, 2015

Avoid generic terms such as results-driven , proven track record , excellent communication skills , team player. Lead global marketing and commercial operations teams with P&Ls up to $2B.” Strategy leader for brands with complex and diverse product lines. Develop award-winning, injury-reducing ergonomic equipment.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 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 19

Pharmaceuticals Conference Learning-by-Doing Strategic Planning 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

When he questioned the mine leadership team he was told, “We’ve heard this story before but we produce too much ore for the company to really shut us down.”. Despite not having sufficient new products to replace these losses, the team delayed making commensurate cost reductions, with each manager saying that their people were indispensable.

Pharmaceuticals 12

Pharmaceuticals Discount Learning-by-Doing Team 12

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.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As leaders, do physicians create a more sympathetic and productive work environment for other clinicians, because they are “one of them”? But we would argue that credibility may also be signaled to important external stakeholders — future employees, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and so on.

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

It's amazing how much one troubled employee can undermine a department's productivity. Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs.

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

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.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). Among the first 100 participants: BIPI's CEO, who was matched with a young member of one of the brand marketing teams. "A But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done. Some people are actively using it to network," reports Tan.

Company 9

Company Pharmaceuticals Health Care Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last year Dina, a CEO I’d been working with, felt that leaders on her team were playing it too safe. 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. At first the team didn’t know what to do with it.

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. He appointed a special team to create an objective, transparent method for selecting the directors. After reviewing the roles and responsibilities of each board and the natures of the new businesses, the team derived lists of the skills each board needed.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Employees can manage their own careers and schedules, using on-line benefits management, job posting systems, training, email, scheduling, and so forth. A pharmaceutical company did something similar for safety scientists. No one knows better than the users themselves what they need. One has been around a long time.

Document 14

Document Information Management Pharmaceuticals Cost 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. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

For over a decade, students in my classes, as well as thousands of employees in hundreds of companies, have found that three steps make it possible for men to overcome the obstacles and lean in more at home in ways that, at the same time, benefit their careers. I feel more productive, motivated, and focused as a result of this experiment.

Delegation 9

Delegation Commitment Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

On average, one of them will be sexually harassed during the next 4 years, before she has even begun her career as a physician’ ” The efforts of many healthcare organizations and medical centers tend to go little further than avoiding litigation. This needs to change.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies How To Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

So for companies looking to create revolutionary products, identifying and accessing cutting edge, exploratory research is a key competitive advantage. As Bush wrote in 1945: “New products and new processes do not appear full-grown. In the pharmaceutical industry, the monitoring process can be incredibly elaborate.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 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. The key product and customer jobs no longer attracted the best talent. Teams that ask themselves these questions honestly will quickly see the first step to take. ” Today, he confessed, “it is the worst job.”

Execution 10

Execution Bureaucracy Self-aware CEO 10