Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Unfortunately, my gesture was rebuffed and the union decided to strike.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A few years back, I coached a national pharmaceutical team with distinct geographies. Gerber is Founder and CEO of Focus One, a consulting firm that helps leaders create High Performance Teams. Drawing from his own extensive background and 10 years of research, Douglas innovated the concept of “Team Quotient” (TQ).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

It can certainly be valuable to have the help of strategy officers or teams on refining and implementing strategy, but the strategy itself needs to be conceived and owned by the CEO (or equivalent for a division). It follows that the CEO must deeply understand customer needs and how to meet them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The CEOs of both — John Noseworthy and Delos “Toby” Cosgrove — are highly skilled physicians. A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. Cleveland Clinic comes in second.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

In a capitalist democracy, government should not be involved with what we in the private sector do, which is managing time to manage money. All it takes is the desire to be innovative and creative in tackling a problem. Entrepreneurship. You needn’t work for yourself – or even be working at all – to be an entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the past 25 years, CEOs of many major corporations have relied on a flawed set of beliefs to lead their organizations. This environment and the behavior produced by the prevailing set of beliefs to which CEOs subscribe have deepened a widespread public distrust of corporations and capitalism. The Conventional Wisdom.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It’s no surprise, then, that the popularity of meditation – one way to practice mindfulness – is also growing among CEOs and senior executives. Because there’s something to meditation that appears to benefit CEOs more than recreation or relaxation do alone. Doty, an early investor, became the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). New technologies, combined with business model innovation, provide the structural cost advantage necessary to take large chunks of the market over time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Big data and analytics can make organizations more efficient and agile by empowering middle-level and far-flung managers to make decisions and seize business opportunities that previously required scarce data and executive approval. This allows CEO Satya Nadella to hear early warning signals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

” Howard Schultz, the chair, president, and CEO of Starbucks revealed that he, and CEOs he knows, feel the same way : “Very few people, whether you’ve been in that job before or not, get into the seat and believe today that they are now qualified to be the CEO. This is true in business as well. And it works!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Managers and business analysts will often be called upon to conduct data-driven experiments, to interpret data, and to create innovative data-based products and services. Adept at mathematical reasoning : How many of your managers today are really "numerate" — competent in the interpretation and use of numeric data?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

“Death by a Thousand Cuts” Based on a comprehensive five-year study, my new research paper, published in the Academy of Management Discoveries this year, systematically identifies the reasons behind the failures of major Western digital firms in China. poor management of relations with Chinese regulators and the government.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A recent survey on easing racial tensions at work by the Center for Talent Innovation found that “The workplace is one of few settings where we commonly interact across racial and ethnic lines.” And a growing number of CEOs and chairs are taking positions on political and social issues. Do not tolerate incivility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Nine years ago, when I launched The Energy Project during an economic boom, it was nearly impossible to find senior leaders open to the idea that demand was exceeding people's capacity, and that it was critical to the bottom line to teach employees new ways to manage their energy more skillfully. on Friday night.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

It started 30 years ago with the progressive and unusual step (for that time) of shifting from local nationals as country managers to global leaders from other countries. As a consequence, five of its CEOs have been non-American-born, including today's CEO, Turkish-born Muhtar Kent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

But it will be important for managers to know when to use each of these types of deals. A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers. By one insider’s account, recent mergers among big pharmaceutical firms led to R&D cutbacks and reduced productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. Perhaps surprisingly, two leading examples come from pharmaceutical companies. Business would change the rules of the game. Breakthrough Science. Breakthrough Institutions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In one of the most widely scrutinized CEO successions ever, Microsoft directors selected insider Satya Nadella to run the company, only their third CEO pick in the firm’s nearly 40-year history. And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. The senior commercial and scientific directors formed a “circle of leaders” comprised of 23 senior managers who had no meaningful history of collaboration on strategic initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” There is enough time to develop innovative solutions to achieve the results.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Scott McNealy , ex-CEO of Sun Microsystems, tweeted this message last month : "Most over used phrase in business is 'strategic partner.' But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

On the other hand, most large sample studies in the accounting literature show something different: firms that manage their earnings perform better than firms that don’t (and not just in the short term). HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance? A couple of things.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A mid-level manager in this 5,000-employee hospital, she is leading a 70-member group on patient flow as part of a larger organizational effort. Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I found a few defining characteristics: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Regeneratives are pharmaceutical cell therapy products that replace or restore cells and tissues lost to disease or aging. “The Japanese want to be the regenerative medicine center of the world,” said Colin Lee Novick, managing director of the CJ Partners biotech consulting firm in Tokyo. Agilis Biotherapeutics, a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers. In the pharmaceutical industry, the monitoring process can be incredibly elaborate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not rising costs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Compliance is crucial for pharmaceutical makers such as Abbott and Amgen – a “ Form 483 ” warning from an FDA inspector can shut down a drug facility in an instant and even land top executives in jail. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Workers’ increasing out-of-pocket costs are creating widespread discontent with the underlying costs of care — a problem largely driven by the high prices charged to private payers for health services and pharmaceuticals. Data from the Commonwealth Fund’s biennial survey of the American public shows that the percent of U.S.

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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. Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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