Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people. It connects to the organization’s overall strategy and performance goals.

Health Care 11

Health Care System Metrics Report 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The concept is fairly straightforward: The parties define the result up front, agree on a baseline, work out how confident the organization is in delivering the result, and then specify the expectation and payment in the contract. There are management tools and incentives in place to encourage a focus on results and the end goals.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

An organization is essentially the sum total of its physical, financial, human, intellectual, and relationship capital. There’s no question why legacy organizations are tackling digital transformation now. Second, make a complete inventory of all your organization’s assets.

Intangible Assets 10

Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Why do organizations so often introduce such new initiatives without thinking about this step? Furthermore, once we start down a path and invest resources in it, we tend to justify our past investments by continuing down that path even when new information suggests that the path is unwise, a phenomenon known as the escalation of commitment.

Flextime 11

Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. rawpixel/Getty Images. Yet, investments in the U.S. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

While her goal was to increase her political savvy, she also expressed interest in delving into the root of the issue, namely her proclivities to defer to authority and shy away from the spotlight. The executives came from a wide array of industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, and media.

Execution 14

Execution 360-Degree Feedback Executive Coaching Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A number of organizations — including the YMCA, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, and the Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance — provide in-person DPPs at various locations. The course usually consists of weekly sessions during the initial four months. Design the service for the patient.

Health Care 12

Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

To get serious results from a network, you need commitment and a continuity of relationships among the participants. A big goal requires a “thick we” network — a community of people who feel responsible for collaborating toward a shared purpose that they see as superseding their individual needs.

Gilbert 9

Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data.

Company 8

Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

For the pharmaceutical industry to remain financially viable, for example, we need scientists who can not only develop new life-saving medicines, but who can do it in a time- and cost-efficient manner. At Merck, as part of our commitment to scientific innovation, we are working to foster the next generation of scientific leaders.

Education 12

Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 12

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. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication. The goal was to demonstrate this idea in action, not talk about it.

Company 15

Company Agility Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

What can the health care industry do to help fight disease, while still maintaining its commitments to shareholders? While currently crippled by inadequate infrastructure in many countries, low- and middle-income countries will be the fastest-growing markets for pharmaceuticals and medical devices over the next decade.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

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). Because of their 360-degree view of organizations, MLMs are uniquely positioned to implement such large-scale initiatives.

Middle Management 9

Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Ambitious women often feel they have to overcompensate at work, too, to counter ingrained preconceptions about their commitment or competence. IWIN makes Infosys a female-friendly environment by identifying the stress points at which women tend to leave the organization and creating policies that help them deal with those stresses.

Stress 14

Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

But when you do so, be sure to emphasize professional development goals. For instance, the head of a division in a pharmaceutical company had a staff member with a reputation for being brilliant but over-committed. At the outset, the more specific you can be about how you define success for the participant, the better.

Participative 8

Participative 360-Degree Feedback Executive Coaching How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

But we hear this kind of thing all the time from leaders in industries as varied as financial services, education, pharmaceuticals, and health care. A lot of it has to do with uncertainty in the world and constant changes in our organizations. .” Stress a happiness killer. And life is just too short to be unhappy at work.

Stress 15

Stress Health Care Emotional Intelligence Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

But when you do so, be sure to emphasize professional development goals. For instance, the head of a division in a pharmaceutical company had a staff member with a reputation for being brilliant but over-committed. At the outset, the more specific you can be about how you define success for the participant, the better.

Participative 8

Participative 360-Degree Feedback Executive Coaching How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

By understanding your boss’s interests and goals, and aligning those with your own case, you are more likely to get what you want. Pitch your raise as not only recognition for past achievements, but also tacit acknowledgment that you are a dedicated team player committed to growing with the company. Gather evidence.

How To 8

How To Case Study Restructuring Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Just as women need support from their organizations and their families to surmount the hurdles of fear and tradition, men need help in getting past the roadblocks that keep them from engaging more fully as caregivers and homemakers. But they face substantial barriers at work, in their homes, and inside their own heads.

Delegation 9

Delegation Commitment Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

When I ask corporate leaders why they are committed to preventing serious injuries and deaths among their workers, most say they care about their employees and don’t want to see anyone hurt. I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. HBR STAFF/CSA Images/BW Archive Collection/Getty Images.

Operations 17

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. But they recognize that they — and the organization — need a process to help them reach their goals.

Middle Management 13

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. Juliano Howard T.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

We believe the solution to this obstacle is to bring trusted third-party research and support organizations together in a coordinated effort to directly engage cancer patients in data sharing. Convening these organizations that had always acted in isolation and never had worked together was no small feat.

Metrics 8

Metrics Health Care Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job?

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

A vision of an inspirational ”end state” is essential for getting people to commitment to change: a simple narrative that articulates not only why change is necessary but also what life will look and feel like once change is successfully implemented. The result was a far stronger and more efficient R&D organization.

Execution 14

Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

After seeing this data presented, the CEO left the meeting committed to reversing course. You cannot win on the outside, in the marketplace, if you are losing on the inside, with an organization stifled by its own growth. ’” Distortion of motive: Young organizations have no place to hide and the founder knows everything.

Execution 10

Execution Bureaucracy Self-aware CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its approval of nusinersen (sold as “Spinraza”), an effective SMA treatment licensed to Biogen by Ionis Pharmaceuticals. The NHS is likely to impose care rationing because of escalating health and pharmaceutical costs. In December, the U.S.

Health Care 10

Health Care Cost System Pharmaceuticals 10