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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. These scenarios are seldom contemplated in institutional management of conflicts of interest. Our experiences in both sectors have led us to this conclusion. Practicing physicians.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products. Experimentation is vital.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?

Harvard Business Review

initiative — prohibitions against off-label marketing under the False Claims Act — swept through the pharmaceutical industry. The most notable was Fannie Mae's $10.8 billion restatement. In another instance, a new enforcement. The largest payments were from Pfizer ($2.3 billion) and GlaxoSmithKline ($3 billion).

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The “Maximize Profits” Trap in Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis. Imagine, for example, that you’re a pharmaceutical CEO deciding whether to recall a new drug. But perhaps managers have no choice. How should you make this decision?

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