Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. Operations. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator,” stated Francis Bacon. As with many clusters, a university sits at its center: founded in AD 1088, the Studium of Bologna was the major educational innovation of Europe’s second millennium. How did the city make the leap?

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

ineffective innovation strategies. failure to fully embed operations in China. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. Uber sold its operation to Didi Chuxing. Specific factors identified included: failure to cope with a very large number of local competitors. “It’s death by a thousand cuts!”

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Unlike some pharmaceuticals, data-opolies do not charge consumers exorbitant prices.

Company 10

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Wyeth, a pharmaceutical acquired by Pfizer in 2009, was the sole supplier of Premarin. At the same time, trade secrets are viewed as the stepchild of intellectual property because they operate, by definition, in secrecy, and we know much less about their role in market competition than we know about patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Merchandising Innovation Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The Institute for Applied Cancer Science at MD Anderson (IACS) is exploring revolutionary new cures and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is working to revive the US production capacity. Innovating the Innovation Process. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.”

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

What happened is very well documented: they kept running down the maintenance budget, pushing their operating budget to make their numbers. If you’re Amazon, Disney, some of the pharmaceuticals…the markets support their huge long-term investments because they can see where the investments will lead. Insight Center.

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Mornings consisted of lectures and case studies in a traditional classroom in the Stanford Business School; this was the “clean models” part of the program. Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

Case Study 9

Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. This may all change as China innovates and grows.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8