Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

We believe these same measures can be successfully adopted and adapted by other companies in pharma and other sectors that seek to avert, or reverse, innovation stagnation. In a recent Gallup poll , the pharmaceutical industry was the most widely disliked private industry, ranking even lower than lawyers.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

presidential election, Interpublic (IPG), my company’s parent corporation, held its first open call for employees to talk about concerns related to respect in the workplace. ” Companies today have the capacity to be a haven from the incivility that individuals confront every day, on the road, online, in the media, and in politics.

Diversity 9

Diversity Politics Survey Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity. The key to building predictive models is knowing what you want to predict and collecting large and diverse data sets that may enable you to do so.

Company 8

Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

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 hope was that the diversity of brainpower and perspectives would yield imaginative ways to outgrow the shortfall. This kind of approach to special challenges that companies face is new.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

As a professional speaker who delivers between 30-50 paid keynotes per year, here are three strategies I’ve discovered that can help you craft a successful talk that resonates with diverse attendees. First, it can be helpful to envision the sections of your speech as “modules” that you can shift and reshuffle as needed.

Audience 9

Audience How To Pharmaceuticals Conference 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The rising flood of hardware, pharmaceuticals, and technical expertise from American manufacturers and hospital companies, which is connected to the needs of a growing number of hospitals, is also pushing many systems closer to the U.S. Over the same period, pharmaceutical exports have doubled. Over the last five years, U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

This was especially daunting during periods of change or growth in which companies needed to hire in large numbers. AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. We were not a global company yet.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The new era will give manufacturing companies an opportunity to help their host economies in all of those areas; it will create high-skill jobs, particularly in design, big data, and other service roles, but not masses of production-line positions. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co. Integration is key.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A recent USC study shows that across multiple and diverse markets, industries are 25% more likely to be “highly concentrated” than they were 20 years ago. Yet at the same time, America’s largest companies are more than twice as likely to lose market share than in 1980. corporate consolidation.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

For example, Microsoft IT leaders take their organization’s pulse using analytical software that monitors trending topics in their Yammer collaboration space. Knowing the real central connectors will mean that leaders can address more people faster than would be possible with a company-wide email blast.

Tools 8

Tools CEO Mezzanine Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

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. What can the health care industry do to help fight disease, while still maintaining its commitments to shareholders? Redefine ROI.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 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. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. Is your company globalizing R&D? Cambridge, U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce. Through its leadership the company is making the ideal of industry-led regional training consortia real. Yet, there is a problem.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

The women led companies in various industries including financial services, consumer products, and healthcare. We uncovered that the women we interviewed combatted this by taking on visible, high-risk roles that helped them ascend to the upper echelons of their companies. Navigating Intersectional Invisibility.

Execution 11

Execution Strategy Self-aware Career 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I have had a front row seat as companies have struggled to enter the emerging world of the Internet of Things — first, 10 years ago as a vice president at Ambient Devices , an MIT Media Lab spinoff that was a pioneer in commercializing IoT devices, and then as a consultant. Building an IoT offering requires design thinking from the get-go.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For example, a yield curve, which compares bonds with the same risk profile but different maturity dates, can be considered a model. If you notice that your best-performing teams are also your most diverse, that may be interesting. Instead, you want to combine diverse models. Here’s one example.

Construction 13

Construction Venture Capitalist Price Guidelines 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

For example, Sproxil has found pharmaceutical buyers for its anti-drug counterfeiting service. Ensuring brand protection for the pharmaceutical company creates a business. It is not yet clear how the industry will make money on it.

Wireless 15

Wireless Health Care Pharmaceuticals Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Those forces are dramatically changing the way B2B companies and their customers approach buying and selling, too. ” Because of the diversity of buyer self-sufficiency, the traditional methods sellers use to customize their selling approach for customers are no longer enough. Here are examples from several industries.

B2B 8

B2B Information Information Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Companies tend to repeat what has worked for them in the past. In our research on the telecom industry, for example, we found that the great majority of the executives we surveyed preferred internal development to external sourcing when they needed to develop differentiated products and services.

Strategy 14

Strategy First-mover Advantage Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 14