N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

One of our pharmaceutical clients was recently recognized for successfully executing his company’s strategy and told us: “If I had to do it over again, I would have had the human resources organization intimately involved much sooner to ensure that our organization and people were prepared to deliver. Engineered to Win.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Cardinal Health: The global pharmaceutical distributor and medical products supplier sent a memo to U.S. Google: The search engine giant announced at the end of July that all employees would need to be vaccinated to work from its campus. Pfizer: The pharmaceutical giant’s U.S. 1 or take regular Covid tests.

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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. Can We Engineer Them Right Out of Business? You’ll be glad you did.

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. My uncle pushes engineering. Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. Let's hear it from her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Not exactly resounding support.

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CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. My uncle pushes engineering. Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. Let's hear it from her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Not exactly resounding support.

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CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

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.” For example, if you asked Larry Page, CEO of Google, to define his company, do you think his answer would be, “We’re a search engine”? This is quite understandable. Not very likely.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The 7 Deadly Sins of Conflict Resolution How to Tell If a Conflict is Good or Bad Conflict Resolution from John Wooden – What’s Right Not Who’s Right Tags: conflict resolution , Decision Making , health care reform , political debate , Problem Solving , Resolving Conflict Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The 7 Deadly Sins of Conflict Resolution How to Tell If a Conflict is Good or Bad Conflict Resolution from John Wooden – What’s Right Not Who’s Right Tags: conflict resolution , Decision Making , health care reform , political debate , Problem Solving , Resolving Conflict Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Take pharmaceuticals. For example, as blockbuster drug patents expire, the pharmaceutical companies are looking for more nuanced ways to build competitive advantage by focusing on specialties or building scale in over-the-counter medicines. Leadership Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy' Take the Novartis-GSK deals.

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Pharmaceuticals Competitive Advantage Engineering Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. With the exception of two jet-engine factories and two plants that make heavy equipment, all were located outside the United States. to Asia.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Pharmaceuticals. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. Overall, it is a messy picture.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It enables knowledge from activities throughout the organization in the previous 24 hours to escalate up to executive leadership — Tier VI in our model — and be addressed. By 10 AM, vital information has risen to the executive leadership, which includes the CEO and his direct reports plus other assigned functional executives.

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Health Care System Metrics Report 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Science and engineering professionals work closely with experienced technicians to produce next-generation batteries, not forged metal. ” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce.

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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. It seems to me that this emphasis on authenticity is an important counterbalance to earlier assumptions that people gained leadership powers by dint of titles or positions in hierarchies.

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

Balancing these tensions requires resonant leadership. They derive a social identity from that team — but often miss the multiple layers of leadership needed for any team to develop and sustain performance. Resonant leadership and social identity groups do this. Teams need leaders, both formal and informal.

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Team Sports Pharmaceuticals PR 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

has become a Mecca for international scientists, engineers and business students — particularly those undertaking graduate studies. Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. Visa restrictions also limit U.S.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Tim Solso, of the engine manufacturer Cummins, spoke for many when he said, “I think an issue we had was that we were a good multinational company that was headquartered in the United States. .” As a pharmaceutical company, we obviously were part of that whole ecosystem. Leadership Competition'

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

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.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

So there is something about needing to keep all 500 partners happy which brings a level of politics, which you wouldn’t get if we were an engineering company or a pharmaceuticals company.”. Consulting Leadership Leadership development' They don’t exhibit the political behavior associated with raw ambition.

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Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is P&G no longer an academy company?

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Despite having solid internal anti-corruption rules in place, the pharmaceutical giant wound up facing criminal investigations for bribing doctors and foreign officials , eventually paying a $489 million fine. These practices continued under executive leadership that stifled disagreement with superiors and, all told, led to $1.2

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Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Consider the recent phenomena of shoestring 3D design labs or the biofabrication labs at MIT , which are taking the plunge into synthetic biology with far fewer resources than the genetic engineers at government labs. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

What would this leadership look like over time? pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

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Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As Linda Hill and her colleagues have described, the company needed expert knowledge as it navigated the technically and ethically challenging waters of pharmaceutical development and marketing. Meanwhile, they’re pragmatic enough to engineer ways for people to gain some direct personal benefits along the way.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Frugal innovations require frugal thinking — an ability to engineer cost?conscious Find Pivots. Think Frugally.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. But as she began to consider her future at the company, she realized that all of the people above her were white, male engineers or accountants.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. Consider the CEO succession process at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline beginning in 2004 when chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier said he would be exiting in three years.

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CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The trick, and it is a difficult one, is to add just enough complexity so that people can do their work, but not so much that “they feel as if they are walking in muck” as Twitter’s SVP of engineering Chris Fry puts it. Change management Customer service Informal leadership' Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser. Roger is the oldest son of an electrical engineer in the Midwest. As a result, many Pleasers grow up hungry for validation and hard-wired to take care of others. They are also easily disconcerted by the withdrawal of approval.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

3M and Google, among others, have given "innovation time off" to their scientists and engineers. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. It's a well-established principle that people need slack time to work through their ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Apple, of course, is the poster child for this ethos, as it puts design first for everything from its software to the industrial engineering of products. Entrepreneurship Leadership Organizational culture' For Apple, it is not just design that matters — what''s paramount is using design to connect to the user.

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Fashion Real Estate Retail Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research. Innovating the Innovation Process. Often, that information is considered proprietary.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

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. What the chart shows is that while we tend to think that leadership matters most to motivation, other processes can have an even bigger impact.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8