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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.” It’s not just products.

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A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Carter Professor of Business Administration, is Chair of the General Management Program, a unique program designed to accelerate leadership growth of cross-functional executives focused on driving change across their organization. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Sunil Gupta, the Edward W.