Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). poor management of relations with Chinese regulators and the government.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk. They’re also sharing risk. But not for long.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. If, in addition, companies are managing their underperformers out poorly, the costs rise even further. Global business Talent management'

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Because I figured out how to embrace networking I found myself in the plum role of leading one of the highest visibility company teams as a new marketing manager at the age of 26, and representing the company at a United Nations conference in Geneva. This is wrong.

Pharmaceuticals 19

Pharmaceuticals Conference Learning-by-Doing Strategic Planning 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Energy, creativity, and activity are all good things — but they don't create value unless results are achieved. Here are some common examples: When pharmaceutical companies announce that a new drug has been "approved," they are actually saying that their researchers made some breakthrough discoveries as far back as fifteen years ago.

Short-term 14

Short-term Pharmaceuticals Long-term Maturity 14

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. Pharmaceutical companies are mastering bio-engineering techniques that will help develop personalized medicines. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Strategic cash provides more flexibility concerning the timing and pricing of potential acquisitions; having cash on hand is the best insurance that CFOs will be able to respond with alacrity to opportunities and not be subject to the vagaries of the financial markets. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g.,

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management.

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

I found myself reflecting on this recently while speaking with two business leaders in one of the world’s great pharmaceutical companies. So yes, be authentic – but don’t break the mold so completely that others need to spend energy figuring out how to engage with your leadership. Leadership Managing uncertainty'

Drucker 8

Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The nay-sayers, on the other hand, can cite the passionately defended view of the pharmaceutical industry that the cost of discovering innovative disease-curing molecules has been rising crazily — the basis for perennial campaigns for stronger intellectual property rights to safeguard pharma investments.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Instead of passive subscribers, it created “communities of friends” who generated new story ideas and collaborated with Fast Company staff to develop themes of the “new management revolution.”. The more responsible participants feel, the more energy and drive they’ll offer — and the better they’ll feel about participating.

Gilbert 9

Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

She kicked off her October management team meeting, which I was attending, by reading the following passage from my book: The dangers of taking too much risk are very clear. Rashid, the COO, commented, “Sure we’re struggling, but that’s just the market, we’ll bounce back.” We’re reminded of them in the news every day.

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information. Their challenge then is to learn how to manage these partnerships differently than the vendor relationships they had before.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 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. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. Cambridge, U.K. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. But in today’s ever-connected world, finding radical ideas seems to be getting tougher for companies.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing. What China makes is generally low-priced, with razor-thin profit margins, is available from almost any emerging market supplier, and contains little distinctive or proprietary intellectual capital. eat our lunch. Far from it.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

They are empowered by – and in frequent communication with – senior management. Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b Japanese pharmaceutical Eisai used them to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients. Shared Spaces.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. So what happened?

Execution 68

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This logic and the institutions that reinforce it, like competitive markets and the rule of law, have transformed the world and lifted billions of people from poverty. You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis. But perhaps managers have no choice.

ROI 8

ROI Long-term Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

After motivational ability, the senior executive traits most valued by organizations were: strong ability to manage change (51 percent); ability to identify and develop talent (46 percent); innovative thinking (30 percent); and consistent high performance (26 percent). years), while the pharmaceutical (5.7

Execution 283

Execution Company Press Release Survey 283

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” “Consumers today are tired of marketers and being constantly marketed to. Consumers today are tired of marketers and being constantly marketed to. ” -Erich Joachimsthaler.

Brand 96

Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The team tasked with overseeing the effort designed an aggressive implementation plan that tied targets to manager compensation. When everyone in the organization feels empowered to make decisions that can influence change, it creates a palpable energy: People tend to work harder, offer more ideas, and become far more invested in the process.

Execution 14

Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

They went deep into three international firms with reputations for excellence – one a law firm, one a public accounting firm, one a management consultancy – conducting over 100 face-to-face interviews with people working within them. In the words of Empson and Alvehus they have gained “legitimacy to lead through market success.”

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Here's what I see when I look not just at the surface, but deep inside the heart of the economy today: Instead of an "energy industry," I see a resource addiction that saps money and preserves self-destructive expectations. Gary Hamel , whose Future of Management is about creating the capacity to live better.

GDP 21

GDP Hamel Industry Construction 21