Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2020

The investment market dealing with precious metals has barely made the cut in terms of popularity among people, and it’s not something many people tap into, if they do hear about it, it’s mostly for either gold, silver or palladium. One such example is that of a large Swiss-based pharmaceutical company that invested around $11.3

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. How long do you think the traditional strategy formulation and execution planning process takes most organizations? Priority on People.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Internal partnerships include direct reports, co-workers and managers. Managers of knowledge workers – people who know more about what they are doing than their mangers must be good partners. In some cases, they may choose to experience a short-term loss, so that the organization can achieve a long-term gain.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. Some large investors already have a long-term view. Take consumer goods giant Unilever.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2011

Management and employee success are intertwined. . For much of our nation’s history, business by and large was America’s heart and soul, focused on the long-term good. It hasn’t always been that way. To be fair, today’s business leaders have some justification to be timid in taking the lead in confronting unemployment.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

Now I know this may be scant solace to an individual who’s been out of work and looking for a job a long time. Nothing has ever been able to keep it down for long, and nothing ever will, if we are patient and allow our economy the time to heal itself through the virtues of the free-market system. . Deregulation.

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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. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to a study conducted by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, diversity in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity has proven to be beneficial for companies operating in the United States. “We looked at their experiences and not just their demographic background—the more functional aspect of diversity. ” .”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

For years, there has been a push within the pharmaceutical industry to move “beyond the pill” — in other words, to build and deploy complementary services and solutions to diversify revenue sources. However, many beyond-the-pill efforts have sputtered or died. Regulatory environment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

They also do not represent sustainable, long-term change. The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

A 2014 global survey of more than 600 C-suite executives and directors, conducted by the non-profit Focusing Capital for the Long Term (FCLT), reported that two-thirds of those surveyed said pressure for short-term results had increased over the previous five years. And short-term thinking since that survey has not abated.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Take the case of Janssen, the pharmaceuticals arm of Johnson & Johnson, which created a breakthrough innovative program called Immersion. They overcame short-term thinking. A majority of public companies pledge allegiance to short-term profit over long-term vision. But it does happen.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Xiaomi’s phones are not technologically disruptive in hardware terms, but they are revolutionary in customer experience terms; customers come to expect and appreciate their weekly OS updates. As a result, we have missed China’s transition from displacer to disruptor.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

This tends to focus doctors, nurses, and other health professionals on the value of what they do — finding the most cost-effective approach to managing their patients’ problems. The reason this formula works is that when care-delivery systems also act as insurers, they assume financial responsibility for the care they provide.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. from that of a fully integrated pharmaceutical company into a company that retained key technical expertise (e.g., Change management Managing people Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Lipitor story seems to be about a managed end: the highly anticipated demise (due to the expiration of its patent last Nov. Apple use life-cycle management to explore a new way to drive the business and business model forward. Lipitor's Long Good-bye. 30) of a blockbuster prescription drug. Both Pfizer and.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Organizations are continuously promoting people into management, and those new leaders struggle with the transition. How talent management is changing. Second, these companies believe in matrix management and risk taking — both attributes are highly predictive of long-term revenue per employee and gross profit margin.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

How long will recruiters spend on your résumé before deciding to toss it in the recycle bin? Avoid generic terms such as results-driven , proven track record , excellent communication skills , team player. This immediately tells the hiring manager that you’ve solved the same types of problems she’s dealing with.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. In my experience, these beliefs have led managers and boards to take actions that have had unintended, destructive consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

But don’t assume your impressive résumé will guarantee you an offer, says Berrin Erdogan, a professor of management at Portland State University and the lead author of a recent study on the subject. “Hiring managers are not always eager to bring on someone who is overqualified.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

The story is a familiar one: A company's quarterly earnings fall significantly short of the investment community's expectations, and the CEO announces a restructuring, including a cut in R&D, to lower costs, regardless of the negative impact on the firm's long-term prospects. Not necessarily. Can we influence who our shareholders are?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Is 23andMe potentially disruptive to pharmaceutical companies? Professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

environmental, social and governance) metrics relevant to long-term sustainable corporate performance. Companies included in the ETF include major airlines, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology. Eccles is a professor of management practice at HBS. Stay tuned.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

” On her return, she found that not only did she fail to get her clients back, but the colleague who took them over didn’t even know that she had previously managed them. We recently presented initial findings at the Academy of Management; for more detail, see a preliminary report here.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?" The less obvious, but equally culpable, individual is often the manager who fumbles the job of taking this employee to task promptly. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

These findings confirm that directors simply aren’t internalizing the extensive, long-term damage an attack could inflict on their organizations. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., Why the disconnect between the global- and company-level views?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

But it will be important for managers to know when to use each of these types of deals. A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers. The term remix describes the mash-ups of music, images, and words that appear all over the web. And therein lay serious challenges for managers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every large financial services company has instituted risk management, but that hasn't prevented risky behavior in the form of office politics and personality conflict — as the JP Morgan trading debacle has demonstrated. Risk management isn't exclusive to banking. Risk management isn't exclusive to banking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But only athletic events produce clear winners and losers in the short-term — and most organizations are not actively engaged in those. Rather, we need to better understand how these numbers were achieved and what they are actually saying about a company's long-term health.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

I teach at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the epicenter for many major companies in pharmaceuticals, insurance, and banking. Jeremy Floyd is president of BPV Capital Management, a national financial services company based in Knoxville, Tenn. We’re regulated.” Financial services is, of course, a highly regulated industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs. It can: Save Taxes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

It also takes a long time for returns on R&D investments to be realized—longer than the average five-to-seven-year period before the portfolio company is sold off. At the same time, there are certain ways LBOs can actually make it easier for firms to invest in the long term. ” There were other limitations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2017

In absolute terms the results are troubling for business. For example, 82% of respondents said that the pharmaceutical industry needs greater regulation. The fastest ways businesses can erode trust are to bribe government officials, pay outsize compensation to senior management, and avoid taxes.

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