Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

Yu examines pharmaceutical companies like Novartis and the soap company P&G to see how they moved across knowledge disciplines to leverage or create new knowledge on how their product was made. How do I align my company’s activities so my organization gets the most out of these trends and cushions the worst?”

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2015

If the only things that leaders demand are results and performance, players in your organization will do their best to deliver those things. When players in your organization understand the context for their work and how their work benefits others in their communities , they have a hard time discounting that meaningfulness.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2023

Hiring and onboarding The researchers believe that these differences are quite probably caused by the different hiring and onboarding practices that organizations deploy, with the financial sector heavily influenced by one’s social class. That’s the key takeaway of this study,” the researchers explain.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When looking for a new boss, it can be tempting to give preference to internal candidates on account of their familiarity with how the organization works. What you really do need is knowledge of that specific industry, whether it’s pharmaceutical or manufacturing or hospitality or rocket science.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pfizer, the multinational pharmaceutical giant, has become increasingly intentional about shaping its culture. They embody our humanity and innovative spirit, and are determined to tackle some of the most pressing health care challenges of our time. People are more committed and loyal to an organization that is ethical.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

My twelve hours at the conference was an unbelievably stimulating torrent of inspiration, passion, and elegance that began with the gorgeous piece by a 13 th generation Noh performer and continued with a series of Japanese and foreign speakers giving talks on their incredibly innovative work and honest personal stories.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

These virtual environments are designed to be exact digital replicas of physical assets and allow organizations to rapidly test changes in the virtual world without having to undergo costly and resource-intensive changes in the physical realm. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Organizations sometimes make catastrophic mistakes. Consider NASA, an organization employing some of the nation’s brightest minds. Some people within the organization had concerns with a component (the O-rings) being affected by low temperatures. Why do organizations forget what they learn, even when stakes are so high?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S. A team of U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

The more interactions and positive experiences that your customers have with you, the more likely they are to convert from consumer into a brand advocate, and so the message of your brand will spread organically. Your business is stable. You can’t base your desire to expand your business on the fact that you have had a good quarter.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. The skepticism is warranted. But it does happen.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Pharmaceutical patent expirations are increasing the use of cheaper generic drugs. What Impact Will Facebook Have on Organ Donations? New delivery methods for primary care are gaining popularity. Price transparency is exerting downward pressure. BONUS BITS: Life-Saving Goes Social. Scientific American).

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Medium-term value drivers look forward to indicate whether a company can maintain and improve its revenue growth and ROIC over the next one to five years (or longer for companies, such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, that have long product cycles). As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry. Copyright (c) 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

But most organizations aren’t set up for getting the most out of non-traditional employment relationships. In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Pharmaceutical patent expirations are increasing the use of cheaper generic drugs. What Impact Will Facebook Have on Organ Donations? New delivery methods for primary care are gaining popularity. Price transparency is exerting downward pressure. BONUS BITS: Life-Saving Goes Social. Scientific American).

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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?

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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. The translation involves people and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. Organizations are continuously promoting people into management, and those new leaders struggle with the transition. It’s not that development itself isn’t important.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Paul is an old friend who, until his recent retirement, worked as a senior scientist at a pharmaceutical company, where he managed a group of innovative researchers. Organizations work best when there is harmony among units, not simply uniform practices. Paul and his team were able to thrive and contribute to the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Organizations striving to find new ways to attack cancer have much to learn from direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies. Answering these questions will allow organizations involved in cancer research to meet patients where they are, just as DTC companies do. What can the field of precision oncology learn from this DTC approach? If so, how?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Some of the nation’s most innovative, high-performing non-profit health care organizations use this formula. The UnitedHealth-DaVita deal, in contrast, seems more likely at first glance to accomplish the insurer-provider partnership that has characterized Kaiser-style organizations in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

We share a common belief that innovation comes from the edges," said Luisa Delgado , an SAP HR director, who noted the company valued the ability of many autistic people to "think differently and spark innovation." SAP''s Bangalore office saw its productivity increase after deploying autistic hires.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

To provide a great experience for attendees, you generally want to focus on the topic the organizers have requested – the “greatest hits” that you’re known for. This can easily be accomplished via email or a quick phone conversation with the organizer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And that's true in many areas: New devices, pharmaceuticals, and surgical techniques regularly get developed and incorporated into practice.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

There is an abundance of high-quality comparative effectiveness data for pharmaceuticals, largely because of the drug approval process, but there’s less data on the value of other expensive investments into health, such as doctor visits and hospitalizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Accountable Care Organization (ACO) models in both the private and the public sectors are rewarding providers for lowering the overall costs of care and keeping patients healthy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

TNG Pharmaceuticals from University of Louisville developed a vaccine for a parasite that strikes cattle, costing the dairy and beef industry over $1 billion a year. The other winners, FYI, were a better human authentication tool for websites and a material science innovation, a heat-resistant filter made from titanium dioxide.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The concept is fairly straightforward: The parties define the result up front, agree on a baseline, work out how confident the organization is in delivering the result, and then specify the expectation and payment in the contract. There is enough time to develop innovative solutions to achieve the results. Samuel Castro.

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