Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more.

Innovation 12

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2×2 matrix below.

Uncertainty 21

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 21

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” 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. But this was not the first time its policies were violated. .”

Company 10

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. ” CEOs also worried about whether their high potential employees were being properly developed. Operating in a Global Marketplace. One area that proved especially challenging was mobility.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. failure to develop and communicate business strategies effectively. failure to fully embed operations in China. This is reflected in seven factors: lack of a deep (enough) understanding of the Chinese market. failure to cope with the extremely fierce competition in China.

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets. Organizations can't operate effectively unless people share information, work together to solve problems, and help each other get the job done. But at the economic level, competition is much more nuanced and even muted.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

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. Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Places full of highly mobile and in-demand workers operate more democratically. Third, and even tricker to manage, effective leaders are given credit for their political skills, both as they rise through the organization and as they operate at the top. Consulting Leadership Leadership development' How do they do that?

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending. The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. million industrial robots are in use or available in various industries including automotive, electronics, rubber and plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage. It was precise, but not necessarily elegant. By 2003, there were 800,000. Today, more than 1.3

Definition 8

Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. Killing Ideas Faster. Dr. Mukesh V.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Boston Scientific a few years back launched a secret project to reverse-engineer the technology of its single-source supplier of coronary stents. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another. It can work, but it's rare.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. Gore & Associates gives people free time and resources to develop new ideas. 2) What is culture worth? 3) What processes in an organization affect culture?

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8