The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Yet, despite those fears, we’re living through what has been dubbed the Second Golden Age of Television, as companies like Amazon and Netflix have entered the market and invested huge sums in television shows and movies.

Innovation 81

Innovation Download Pharmaceuticals Creativity 81

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2020

One such example is that of a large Swiss-based pharmaceutical company that invested around $11.3 The establishment of EFT is slowly growing, and with its increase, the mining companies dealing with the extraction of platinum say that there will soon be a considerable increase in platinum demand soon in the global market.

Price 67

Price Short-term Long-term Globalization 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Large pharmaceutical companies are nowhere near as important to real drug innovation as they purport to be.

Innovation 17

Innovation Pharmaceuticals Price Company 17

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

We know that mergers and acquisitions are challenging for the companies involved. Regulators try to model how prices, sales, and even the combining parties’ research and development efforts will change after a merger. On the one hand, M&As can help companies use their resources more efficiently.

Innovation 8

Innovation Pharmaceuticals Company Price 8

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

At the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, a Director may often have less detailed knowledge about a client than a more junior partner. As companies have become larger and more global, there has been a shift from buying stand-alone products to buying integrated solutions. ” Outside the Organization. Partnering with customers.

Short-term 107

Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices. The first will be continued displacement by ever-more-competitive Chinese companies who compete on cost. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge. They have been displacers, not disrupters. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients.

Business Model 15

Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Whether it’s a restaurant, or a mortgage company, or a carpet cleaning operation, or a pharmaceutical company, the business has to make money. Price is right.” “And?”. There is no point in starting a business, whether it’s a restaurant, or a—what is it you do again?”. “I I sell mortgages.”. Right, mortgages. That’s right.

Open-book 40

Open-book Pharmaceuticals Fashion Price 40

Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Whether it’s a restaurant, or a mortgage company, or a carpet cleaning operation, or a pharmaceutical company, the business has to make money. Price is right.” “And?”. There is no point in starting a business, whether it’s a restaurant, or a—what is it you do again?”. “I I sell mortgages.”. Right, mortgages. That’s right.

Open-book 40

Open-book Pharmaceuticals Fashion Price 40

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Liz Smith – Chairman and CEO, Bloomin’ Brands (Outback, Flemings, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill) – one of the world’s largest casual dining companies. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

But in today's interdependent world, this flawed belief is proving a thorn in the balloon that would otherwise raise many companies' future commercial success. Indeed, the true paradox that smart, trailblazing companies are solving is how to outperform their competition by collaborating with their competition. His blunt response: No.

Co-Opetition 14

Co-Opetition Company Brandenburger Game Theory 14

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 10

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, Google, Amazon, and similar companies are “data-opolies.” ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. That influence comes in part from data. In the U.S.,

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

On Fast Company's website, Bruce Kasanoff and Michael Hinshaw offer a nifty little primer for prospective disruptors. Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Looking for more?

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

You could argue that Cipla's formula is simply to piggyback on other companies' products, so it doesn't have to pay for R&D. In the US, Cipla sells its products generic pharmaceutical companies such as Teva and Eagle. It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5

Company 11

Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Since the late nineteenth century, we have seen five distinct movements in the way companies compete. Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. Edwards Deming , who introduced quality as a way of life for Japanese companies.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

While a dynamic, competitive economy rewards innovative firms with high profits and punishes poor performers with low profits, sustained aggregate profits suggest, instead, that firms are able to get away with higher prices because competition is limited. Even when regulators try to reduce prices, firms can benefit.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is nothing if not determined in its quest to acquire Illumina, the San Diego-based leader in genetic-sequencing equipment. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now. billion tender offer directly to shareholders.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Selling pharmaceuticals in Latin America is not the same as selling them in the United States or Western Europe. So if a doctor prescribes a medication priced at 100 pesos, that is what it will cost the patient. So if a doctor prescribes a medication priced at 100 pesos, that is what it will cost the patient.

Pharmaceuticals 13

Pharmaceuticals Strategy Advertising Price 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

The pharmaceutical company Valeant raised the price of Cuprimine — invented in 1956 and used to treat Wilson’s disease, a rare condition in which the body cannot process copper — from about $500 to about $24,000 for a 30-day supply, causing outrage from consumers. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

CEO 8

CEO Short-term Long-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Last week over 100 leading cancer specialists signed their names to an op-ed in Blood , the journal of the American Society of Hematology, which lambasted the prices of cancer drugs that often exceed $100,000 annually. While pharma companies spend billions on research, the actual cost of manufacturing a treatment (such as a pill) is minimal.

Discount 8

Discount Price Fixed Costs Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Throughout its history, Pfizer's biggest product and the biggest-selling branded drug in pharmaceutical industry history, has delivered some confounding strategic lessons. Diplomat will sell mail-order branded Lipitor at generic prices. And both teach lessons that apply across many industries. Lipitor's Long Good-bye.

Disintermediation 15

Disintermediation Industry Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

On Fast Company's website, Bruce Kasanoff and Michael Hinshaw offer a nifty little primer for prospective disruptors. Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Looking for more?

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Many companies struggle to deliver a consistent and easy buying experience for their customers. The analyst recommends a particular software company’s solution. The analyst recommends a particular software company’s solution. gremlin/Getty Images. But then things begin to break down.

Marketing 11

Marketing Team Software Pharmaceuticals 11

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

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

Health Care 102

Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

Health Care 102

Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. public corporations must file with the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

” Depending on how real or alive these passionate purposes are, they can rally and arouse people to work for, buy from, invest in, or partner with these companies. ” A financial services company: “ Helping our clients build their financial freedom and security.” And don’t delegate purpose to marketing.

Mintzberg 111

Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

There is an abundance of high-quality comparative effectiveness data for pharmaceuticals, largely because of the drug approval process, but there’s less data on the value of other expensive investments into health, such as doctor visits and hospitalizations. (For

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As the ire over high prescription drug prices in the United States escalates , it’s easy to blame pharmaceutical companies. But pharmaceutical companies aren’t to blame. But blaming them for their high prices is short-sighted finger pointing. virtually every country regulates prices and the U.S.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Price Budgeting Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2018

Take United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz, whose initial response to the violent removal of a fare-paying passenger from one of the company’s planes led to a public backlash. Or the notorious case of Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who failed to apologize for dramatically raising the price of a life-saving drug.

Creativity 13

Creativity Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing Team 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

A company is only as valuable as its customers and to gain or keep them, you have to do a specific job for them. “It’s a measure of how much value an individual customer, or customer segment, gets from using a company’s products or services,” says Avery. What is EVC? ” How do you calculate EVC?

Price 8

Price Venture Capitalist Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Recent events have seen a rash of the departures from large corporates: Steve Ballmer from MicroSoft, Jeremy Levin from Teva Pharmaceutical, and Thorsten Heins from Blackberry. On 1 March 2009, Burberry’s share price opened at £254.75. This represents nearly 600% increase in company value. His average CEO time has been 5.3

CEO 14

CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 14