Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

Equally troublesome, almost all policies focus exclusively on payments and finances but ignore the powerful influence of careerism and other non-financial motives that may compromise objectivity far more than financial incentives. For academics, publishing and obtaining grants are key to promotion and career advancement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The pharmaceutical industry also creates products with complex interactions and potentially dangerous side effects. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Here, the protocols from other industries can provide some insight.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

Take, for example, the debate over economic competition between China and the U.S. In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. But at the economic level, competition is much more nuanced and even muted.

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Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. As an example of the complications ahead, let’s look at taxes. Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

In March 2012, for example, Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi-Aventis, told an audience at the CED Life Sciences Conference that "the best people who have great ideas in science don't want to work for a big company. if you want to work with the best people, you're going to have go outside your own company".

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Licensing Depreciation Pharmaceuticals Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

One way to appeal to this demographic (and to the parents who often finance young drivers’ transportation) is to focus on safety. The iPhone is the best example of this—its success hinged not only on the device, but its connection to iTunes and the App store. How about a man cave on wheels? Or a kitchen?

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Transportation Sports Pharmaceuticals Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

There's a sense that a woman is just working until she gets married, [that] she is not a long-term resource," said one senior finance professional. For example, Infosys, the Bangalore-based info-tech powerhouse, offers the Infosys Women's Inclusivity Network (IWIN). Some Indian companies are taking steps to help these stressed women.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The idea isn’t new — it’s well established in online advertising, for example — but its application is becoming more widespread in the private and public sectors. Consider these examples: Education. For example, health and social care providers may work more closely within “integrated care” models.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software. In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

In a recent Gallup poll , the pharmaceutical industry was the most widely disliked private industry, ranking even lower than lawyers. ” Meanwhile, the company recruited non-scientist talent from finance, consulting, tech, academia, and political campaigns and inserted them into drug-development roles.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In the 1990s and 2000s, for example, several corporate-venture initiatives helped pharmaceutical companies catch up with rapid advances in bioscience that were threatening to undermine the value of their well-established expertise. Finance Innovation' Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center. Five Ways to Innovate Faster.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In the 1990s and 2000s, for example, several corporate-venture initiatives helped pharmaceutical companies catch up with rapid advances in bioscience that were threatening to undermine the value of their well-established expertise. Finance Innovation Insight Center_Innovation no-intromercial' Five Ways to Innovate Faster.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

For example, Boston’s program includes job placements at private-sector employers across a wide range of industries, including finance, health care, life sciences, and education. For example, how much did it matter that youth were placed in a private-sector versus a community-based job?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. These hurdles aren't unique to financial services — insurance, pharmaceuticals, health care and government all face regulation, to name a few examples. "Follow us here for updates on our work, our research, and our people.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Consider just a few examples. For example: • Sales force strategy and scale. For example: • Targeting. In some industries, such as airlines and pharmaceuticals, data companies sell information on sales of all competitive products by account or local market. This is the fifth vacancy in two years. Sales force deployment.

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Retail Incentives Tactics Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example, a divested business may inherit assets and capabilities that have been starved of investment by its former parent. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. The second category is legacy factors from whose impact the business can only escape slowly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Although it is premature to declare this the greatest example of misgovernance in modern U.S. In 2012, Congress passed legislation to create a new pathway by which potential “breakthrough” drugs could receive expedited approval, financed by new user fees on the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

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.

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Short-term Pharmaceuticals Long-term Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The financial crisis is a prime example of too few people holding the reins. For example, the rapidly evolving field of biomimicry examines nature's models and processes to help solve human problems. Perhaps surprisingly, two leading examples come from pharmaceutical companies. Breakthrough Finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Three people die every minute from tuberculosis — a treatable and largely preventable disease.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. For example, South Korea–based LG Electronics, which maintained an Iran presence despite sanctions, is in discussions to establish a manufacturing plant in Tehran that will produce more than 1.5 However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

The exchange has already established listing requirements for responsibility reporting, for example. Companies included in the ETF include major airlines, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology. The SSE is well positioned to do so because the exchange has already taken a number of steps to improve reporting on nonfinancial (i.e.,

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Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. Was it only ten years ago that the profits of the top 10 U.S. And what risks did he run?

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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. We can and do make all of that (although not very many phones and hardly any clothing or shoes).

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Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

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. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. However, classifications were mostly clear.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether the work done by pharmaceutical salespeople really counts as "selling." pharmaceutical industry could face billions in retroactive overtime. By any reasonable definition, pharmaceutical salespeople are absolutely salespeople. Consider this example. SmithKline Beecham Corp.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Objective Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

For example, application of complex financial accounting rule — FAS 133 relating to derivatives — led to expensive restatements in numerous businesses. initiative — prohibitions against off-label marketing under the False Claims Act — swept through the pharmaceutical industry. billion restatement.

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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. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Imagine, for example, that you’re a pharmaceutical CEO deciding whether to recall a new drug. In these cases, running the numbers and grasping what they tell you is important, but it isn’t enough. With gray area problems, you have to look hard at the economics and look past the economics. How should you make this decision?

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ROI Long-term Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields. For example, as one told us, “We accelerated our orphan disease program, based on accurate prediction of rival expected entry.” We received 236 responses from 21 industries in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In this approach, drug discovery is developed around a specific disease and is financed by the efforts of a disease-focused foundation. Because CF is a relatively rare disease, affecting roughly 70,000 people worldwide, pharmaceutical companies were unwilling to invest in potential cures. One timely example illustrates the point.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

This is taken from The Intercollegiate Finance Journal (IFJ) is an undergraduate student-run journal about how current finance, economics, business and technology issues affect students'' lives. Pfizer’s CEO, for example, is British. Corporate Mythology. Decrying tax inversion as unpatriotic misses the point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

For example, a key source of concern for some companies is more-restrictive rules of origin, which would reduce the amount of materials allowed to be used tariff-free for products traded to and from NAFTA member countries. Multinationals are heavily pushing for either minor tweaking to the agreement or a modernization of NAFTA.

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