The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. He has spent many years learning to connect and communicate with other people more effectively. That being the case, the argument you’re presenting here seems a bit specious.

Health Care 102

Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. He has spent many years learning to connect and communicate with other people more effectively. That being the case, the argument you’re presenting here seems a bit specious.

Health Care 102

Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. The current corporate entity is comprised of firms that used to be called: King Pharmaceuticals, Wyeth, American Cyanamid, Lederle, Pharmacia, Upjohn, Searle, SUGEN, Warner-Lambert, Parke-Davis and others.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

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. This makes the United States, for many chemical companies, the preferred place to manufacture. Dow Chemical is expanding its investment in the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Among non-financial corporations, most of the effect is accounted for by just five industries: pharmaceuticals/chemicals, petroleum refining, transportation equipment/defense, utilities, and communications. First, the link between regulation and profits is highly concentrated in a small number of politically influential industries.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Producing biologics involves enough biochemistry, chemical engineering, and cell biology to make a graduate student wince. This is why I cringe when I see pharmaceutical makers shipping more and more of their production and development capability offshore, or when I see semiconductor tool makers move their manufacturing from the U.S.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization. Whatever the motives, though, SBOs do enable successive waves of add-on acquisitions to the initial divested business.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. We then tested the model using quantitative data about the incidence of safety-related errors in the context of pharmaceutical drugs. The motto becomes “We will launch new products unless it is proved unsafe to do so.”

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Downstream, it works closely with local distributors to reach widely disparate health care facilities, pharmacies, and other distribution channels, such as a production and marketing partnership with Medpro in South Africa and a minority stake in Quality Chemical Associates in Uganda. Cipla is not a stranger to M&A either.

Company 12

Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. They are known for demonstrating a special sensitivity to the market needs of the specialized manufacturers who use their services.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Bayer divested its chemicals and materials businesses and ended up a pharmaceutical and crop-science giant. This refocusing is often the other side of the coin in an acquisition strategy. Take these examples: GE is divesting its banking business to focus on industrial sectors.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Health Care Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

By one insider’s account, recent mergers among big pharmaceutical firms led to R&D cutbacks and reduced productivity. Other major industries, like computers, media, autos, chemicals, oil, and financial services are not far behind. But mergers are not the only way for companies to mix and match resources.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Health Care Contingency Plans Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. This lab isn't located in Bangalore or Hyderabad (where Dr Reddy's is headquartered) but in.

Globalization 10

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In response, they release hormones and chemicals to speed up our heart rate, increase blood pressure and stimulate our muscles. Such was the case when I was working a grueling pharmaceutical sales job. We become more alert and responsive, which is appropriate when we’re in harm’s way.

Stress 8

Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In both cases participants read about a new medication that boosts immune function and reduces occurrence of the common cold, ostensibly developed by a large pharmaceutical company. We found the same to be true for chemical formulas (and other research has shown that brain scans and scientific jargon operate in a similar way).

Press Release 8

Press Release Participative Pharmaceuticals Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But we also make super-sophisticated products like jet engines, airplanes, satellites, radar, advanced medical devices, pharmaceuticals, all kinds of chemicals, the world’s most sophisticated robots, military goods, and the world’s most advanced computer chips and computers.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

Operations 17

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.". pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., Talent management'

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

To give a few examples: Jungbunzlauer supplies citric acid for Cola-Cola worldwide (and a few other salty and sweet chemicals), TetraMin is the number one producer of fish food, Uhlmann is the world leader in packaging systems for pharmaceuticals, and Flexi is the number one manufacturer of dog leashes worldwide.

Succession 8

Succession Simon Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

” Understanding specialty chemicals customers: “Big data and analytics help us improve customer targeting and achieve more cost-effective deployment.” Here are examples from several industries. Finding banking customers: “Social media allows us to cost-effectively reach out to more prospects and showcase our services.”

B2B 8

B2B Information Information Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

At UCB, a medium-sized pharmaceutical company headquartered in Belgium, Heresh Rezavandi and his managers Michelle Maddix-Sovero are leading a young strategic intelligence function that’s part of the strategic marketing practice. Man-Wai Chow is leading the strategic intelligence efforts at Eastman, a chemical company.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I studied cross-functional teams in industries including communications, software, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, agricultural, chemical, manufacturers, retail, utility, consulting, internet software, government, insurance, and banking.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

As two of his business units were completing their merger, Peter Noll, chief of the Diagnostics division at the Frankfurt-based Scherr Pharmaceuticals, felt it was time to address a nagging issue: The combined entity had no overarching revenue model.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

There are similar stories in the electronics industry, pet food, pharmaceuticals, and even national security. For example, Apple works with at least 200 suppliers and 242 smelters and refineries across the world. It’s no wonder so many consumers have no idea where their favorite brands come from.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8