Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. Andy Roberts/Getty Images. This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001.

Influence 13

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 53

Resources Industry System Strategy 53

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Take the case of Janssen, the pharmaceuticals arm of Johnson & Johnson, which created a breakthrough innovative program called Immersion. As part of this effort, they discovered that the majority of employees who were advising Janssen on emerging markets had never set foot in those countries. But it does happen.

Innovation 12

Innovation P&L Short-term Company 12

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? Shared goals and clearly defined roles provide the foundation upon which cooperation and coordination can be built.

Execution 68

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

As important as these leadership skills are, just as important to the leadership transition is learning to let go of old ways of thinking, and relaxing into the role. A successful leadership transition depends on substantial cognitive restructuring. This positive mindset is an essential starting point. Insight Center.

Belief Systems 8

Belief Systems Executive Coaching Stress Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurers, and retailers invest millions in risk avoidance. Every business day, companies cede hard evidence to the political agendas of a willful manager or department, and these companies span geographies, industries, revenues, and market segments. Risk management isn't exclusive to banking.

Merchandising 10

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

of the market. Similarly at a large pharmaceutical firm, many of the expert strategy consultants outlasted their departmental clients — which made them indispensable to the new managers. Leadership coaches, team facilitators, and some management consultants fall into this category. In the U.S.

Consultative 15

Consultative Pharmaceuticals Project System 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

A big goal requires a “thick we” network — a community of people who feel responsible for collaborating toward a shared purpose that they see as superseding their individual needs. The goal was to help one another get smarter, while collectively providing superior solutions for Pfizer. Informal leadership Managing people'

Gilbert 9

Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social?

Intangible Assets 10

Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 10

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Leadership development Leadership transitions Managing people'

Middle Management 9

Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

He says he’s seeing a growing interest among leaders in meditation as a way to build leadership skills – and achieve business goals. “There was this one instance where the market tanked and there was panic on the desk. “Most of our new clients … are not sold by mindfulness as a novelty. Mindfulness.

CEO 8

CEO Emotional Intelligence Cooper Pharmaceuticals 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.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. Profit-driven companies, on the other hand, feel so much pressure to go to market that they often pass on ideas with vast potential. Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

“But there’s an art to the ask,” says Diana Faison, a partner with leadership development firm Flynn Heath Holt Leadership. By understanding your boss’s interests and goals, and aligning those with your own case, you are more likely to get what you want. What the Experts Say. Gather evidence.

How To 8

How To Case Study Restructuring Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Collective Impact is premised on the belief that progress in tackling complex, systematic issues can only be achieved when multiple organizations (companies, governments, NGOs, nonprofits, and so on) work toward a shared goal. In the hope that others can learn from our efforts, let us explain how the Accelerator has applied the approach.

Metrics 8

Metrics Health Care Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Traditionally, organizations have used data analytics as a tool of retrospection, as a means of answering questions like, “Did this marketing campaign reach our desired audience?” A history of maximizing pageviews is not itself a compelling reason to set a renewed goal of maximizing pageviews. ” Insight Center.

How To 12

How To Pharmaceuticals Process Objective 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When a detailed cost assessment identified significant savings potential, executive leadership boldly added another five percentage points to the target. The successful but challenging experience of a large pharmaceutical company illustrates the tension between top-down and decentralized change efforts.

Execution 14

Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Distortion of decisions: A number of years ago we studied in detail how the most important decisions like product approvals were made at a large pharmaceutical firm. Teams that ask themselves these questions honestly will quickly see the first step to take.

Execution 10

Execution Bureaucracy Self-aware CEO 10