The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

billion and is estimated to be worth $48 billion by 2026, with the Covid pandemic driving growth, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, but also in sectors such as automotive and defense. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 ” Modified behavior. Experiences in VR may be a poor proxy for real life.”.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” Each of these adjacent moves has been built solidly on Canon’s existing expertise and assets, increasing the potential for its success. This is quite understandable.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Yeah, of course,” I answered, setting my food back on the plate. Whether it’s a restaurant, or a mortgage company, or a carpet cleaning operation, or a pharmaceutical company, the business has to make money. You’re pretty successful, right?”. That’s the general idea, sure.”. It’s not the general idea; it’s the whole idea.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Yeah, of course,” I answered, setting my food back on the plate. Whether it’s a restaurant, or a mortgage company, or a carpet cleaning operation, or a pharmaceutical company, the business has to make money. You’re pretty successful, right?”. That’s the general idea, sure.”. It’s not the general idea; it’s the whole idea.

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Open-book Pharmaceuticals Fashion Price 40

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Former HR director with Pepsi Central Eastern Europe, and gained HR expertise at PLIVA Pharmaceutical Company (now part of Teva Group). Formerly in sales and sales management for pharmaceutical organizations including GlaxoSmithKline UK and US. David Gallimore – Led seven successful startups inside Boeing, Capgemini, IBM, Wall Data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Might this difference in education influence how CEOs behave when it comes to setting a course and trimming corporate sails? This result could, of course, be explained by many things other than the educational background of the CEO. We did not observe an obvious selection bias in which industries hired lawyer CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The findings of course do not prove that doctors make better leaders, though the results are surely consistent with that claim. But we would argue that credibility may also be signaled to important external stakeholders — future employees, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. This was a notable success — but what if we combined the insights and resources of a life science company and health provider that were both focused on, say, acute cardiovascular diseases?

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Photo: Barbara Leatham In 2018, Brian Bugge, a sailor in the US Navy and an experienced diver, entered the water off Hawaii on a technical training course. Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Some dreams, of course, are about money. Not long ago I listened to a senior executive in a pharmaceutical company talk to a team of managers about the limited availability of a particular medicine. Conversely, when the dreams are mundane and lack credibility, employees disconnect and pull back on their investment.

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Power Pharmaceuticals Travel Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Danny Boyle acknowledged them as the key to the success of the opening ceremony. Of course, we sometimes see such passion in the business world, in the wild enthusiasms of R&D professionals in innovative engineering and pharmaceutical companies. They are all over the Games. They greet you at the airport.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In the health care arena, horizontal mergers seem to have run their course: The proposed mergers of insurers Aetna and Humana, and of Cigna and Anthem, were challenged by the DOJ and withdrawn , as was Walgreens’s proposed acquisition of Rite Aid. Evaluating vertical mergers is trickier.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But replicating the facility- and labor-intensive American model — which is more costly than that of any other nation yet produces subpar results — will set these emerging economies on the same course of endless cost escalation that has plagued the United States. Over the same period, pharmaceutical exports have doubled.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. The course usually consists of weekly sessions during the initial four months.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

High-end consumers do not buy most counterfeits, of course, but they are a large market and growing fast as China’s upper-middle class expands. In order to improve product safety, China’s pharmaceutical, alcohol, and food industries already use QR codes and RFID tags to track products as they move from factory to consumer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Let’s look at the case of a pharmaceutical company we worked with. Enter artificial intelligence and, more specifically, machine learning, which is already disrupting fields such as drug discovery and medical imaging but only just beginning to scratch the surface of the possible in health care. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

Their successes in other international markets have given them a false sense of safety and invincibility in their perceived competitive advantages. The answer, of course, is no. Unlike other digital markets, doing everything right in China is often not enough to guarantee success, due to strong competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The executives came from a wide array of industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, and media. Of course, we recognize there is bias inherent in nonblind coding. The thirties are often characterized by intense activity to establish the foundation for a successful career; this involves mastering rules that win approval.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication. Over the course of several months, the Dr. Reddy’s team worked with IDEO to learn about the needs of everyone, from shop floor workers to scientists, external partners, and investors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Of course, Where to Play and How to Win has to link with and reinforce an inspiring Winning Aspiration. P&G made a Where to Play choice to get into the huge, profitable, and growing pharmaceutical business with the acquisition of Norwich Eaton, in 1982.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

There is very little objective data on the subject, partly because when evaluating a project the consulting firm can almost always claim success based on completing the project plan, while "implementation" and "getting results" is the responsibility of the client. Results will then become the true measure of success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

I teach at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the epicenter for many major companies in pharmaceuticals, insurance, and banking. Financial services is, of course, a highly regulated industry. If your company is still in the social media dark ages, the first step toward success may not be creating a new Facebook page.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

When we think that a particular course of action is the correct decision, our human tendency is to interpret any available information as supportive of that course of action. The change is a success, right? Without some knowledge of what would have taken place in the absence of the change, it’s hard to evaluate your success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2013

Sure, the company was eventually both punished and sold (it’s now one of the fastest-growing pharmaceutical businesses in the U.S.). OK, you know I have to say it: Of course this scandal boils down to a massive management problem. Will Online Courses Really Improve the Productivity of Higher Ed? Just Add Training! New Yorker.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

HBS welcomes 6,360 foreign nationals (64% of the total) to its executive education courses each year, enriching the experiences for Americans as well. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Think about what happens in mergers, at least in the successful ones. By one insider’s account, recent mergers among big pharmaceutical firms led to R&D cutbacks and reduced productivity. Business combinations on a smaller scale are often more successful than big mergers. I’ll extend that idea to business. Author included.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Terry, a highly regarded marketing associate in a pharmaceutical firm, had just been asked to lead a marketing team. Here, I’m referring to boundaries as the guardrails that determine what the new manager should and should not do, how much time to spend on the job, and how success will be measured.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

So why is it that the most successful corporation on the planet in this new millennium has been a secretive hierarchy run by a (now-deceased) tyrant? Williams , Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success. It's more open than most observers note, and that's been at the heart of much of its success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Profits of Lambert Pharmaceutical went from $100,000 per year in 1920 to $4 million per year in 1927, a forty-fold increase impressive even by Silicon Valley standards. Of course, when others “like” my post, this helps with common knowledge because I can see, and I know they can see that I can see, who likes my post.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Of course, these responses to transparency — departures, boycotts (reduced effort), and active politicking — may be precisely what the advocates of transparency expect and want. In response, management took a succession of steps targeted at reducing transparency or eliminating the opportunity for comparison.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The conventional course of action would have been to cut investments in research and restructure. Some people may contend that given the high risks and many years it takes to develop a new drug, pharmaceutical companies are different animals from other firms. Yes, those actions would have boosted short-term earnings. I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

No major and widely embraced employee productivity enhancement initiative has veered farther off course than wellness. You are far more likely to increase morale by responding to employee interests and concerns than by trying to manipulate health behaviors that are largely unrelated to enterprise success. Health Human resources'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The megatrend in demand, of course, is the shift to developing economies. Pharmaceutical companies are mastering bio-engineering techniques that will help develop personalized medicines. We identify five major groups (see chart: "Manufacturing is Diverse"), in which the inputs that define success vary.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In the 1990s and 2000s, for example, several corporate-venture initiatives helped pharmaceutical companies catch up with rapid advances in bioscience that were threatening to undermine the value of their well-established expertise. You can see why: For decades in the U.S., But cutting back on research funding doesn''t work either.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

In the course of research for our book , we’ve found that this approach also provides an ideal methodology for leaders to identify which M&A deals are most likely to pay off — a disciplined approach that acts as a kind of lens for effectively distinguishing gold from iron pyrite in assessing potential company synergies.

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