Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

It used to be that hospitals and health systems operated as islands, selecting and purchasing medical supplies, devices and medications in isolation, and keeping their operational and leadership practices to themselves. While collaboration is always challenging, the health care benefits are by now clear.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Mayo Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Is it OK for a few firms to possess so much data and thereby wield so much power? In the U.S.,

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

And today the company has become more open in a number of areas, as the pressures of the market forces are forcing it to open up even further. That can be a powerful marketing technique if you have the market muscle to pull it off. That can be a powerful marketing technique if you have the market muscle to pull it off.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Open-book Software Niche Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In all these cases, the antitrust authorities argued that further combinations among firms in the same market would hurt consumers. When two separate firms with market power occupy successive positions in an industry value chain, both will try to earn a profit margin over their costs. Evaluating vertical mergers is trickier.

Health Care 8

Health Care Proposal Insurance B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Organized demonstrations of support by stakeholder groups can send a powerful signal to policymakers. How can new firms overcome the regulations that protect incumbents? Consumer clubs.

Licensing 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

health care system, ranging from expensive imaging for benign medical conditions to routine pre-operative testing before low-risk surgeries like cataract surgery. Examples of significant investments in low-value care services abound in the U.S. Some research estimates that 42% of Medicare beneficiaries receive some form of low-value care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The problem limiting this manager's potential is often embedded in his or her power style. In my new book, Power Genes , I explore the link between a person's family history and the power style this person frequently displays on the job. Scarcity issues within the family system are at the heart of the Pleaser power style.

Rogers 15

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Long before the Industrial Revolution , Bologna used this combination of hydraulic power and technology to bring silkworm farming to Europe at scale. Moreover, a cluster can never be static.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. Risk and outcomes, as the scenario plays out, will be managed by predictive models, which are powered by machine learning algorithms that will improve their accuracy rates over time.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A recent USC study shows that across multiple and diverse markets, industries are 25% more likely to be “highly concentrated” than they were 20 years ago. Yet at the same time, America’s largest companies are more than twice as likely to lose market share than in 1980. corporate consolidation.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Eight of the CEOs pointed to the challenges of operating in a fast-paced global marketplace. Talent pipelines were also a concern. Currency really had a big effect.”

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

When biotechnology startups like Genentech began to acquire other startups to retain their edge, pharmaceutical incumbents were forced to enter the acquisition melee to remain competitive. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

Energy 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

And today the company has become more open in a number of areas, as the pressures of the market forces are forcing it to open up even further. That can be a powerful marketing technique if you have the market muscle to pull it off. That can be a powerful marketing technique if you have the market muscle to pull it off.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Open-book Software Niche Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. Google uses a different approach to working with multiple external parties.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. McKinsey teams are beavering away in places like the United Arab Emirates and the 'Stans — Turkmenistan, say, or Tajikistan — but they're as likely to be doing operations projects as pure strategy work.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Most of us would say it's exceptionally hard, particularly when power is concentrated in a few incumbent companies with deeply rooted vested interests. But this focused power may be a benefit, not a risk. Just under 1,000 companies account for half of the world's market capitalization, Eccles notes.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. Some people may contend that given the high risks and many years it takes to develop a new drug, pharmaceutical companies are different animals from other firms. I disagree.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Organizational culture is shaped by and overlaps with other cultures — especially the broader culture of the societies in which it operates. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g. a fast-moving consumer products division vs. a pharmaceuticals division of a diversified firm). Culture is powerfully shaped by incentives.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

” Try to avoid patterns of speech that Faison refers to as “power robbers.” Emily Bayliss*, vice president of operations for a pharmaceutical market intelligence firm in New Jersey, had repeatedly assumed greater responsibilities and oversight of various groups for more than a decade.

How To 8

How To Case Study Restructuring Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? But these effects were limited.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .”

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The pervasive adoption of mobile devices has driven an explosion of contextual user information, including geolocation data, which has become a valuable resource for marketers. However, a lack of technical skill sets among marketers has made it difficult for them to use this data (when they have access to it) effectively.

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Short-term Brand Long-term Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

According to our report The Power of the Purse: Engaging Women Decision Makers for Healthy Outcomes , which was based on a multi-market survey of 9,218 respondents in the U.S., Women account for a significant chunk of the market. Fifty-nine percent of women in our multi-market sample are making health care decisions for others.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. The Real Power of Enterprise Social Media Platforms. It has never before rolled out something at this speed.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

In exclusive business relationships, one or the other partner will typically feel constrained and seek ways out of the deal or to create additional options that give them bargaining power with their mate. PDF) But that would leave you out of the game for many new technologies and markets, where alliances are essential.

Management 12

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

It’s not that we lack powerful ways to approach strategy; it’s that we lack a robust way to select the right ones for the right circumstances. In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

There needs to be a framework and model that leaders can follow, an operating model, so to speak. “Consumers today are tired of marketers and being constantly marketed to. Consumers today are tired of marketers and being constantly marketed to. It is my opinion that the interaction field model is the answer.

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Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. Finally, industries in the upper-right quadrant — such as software, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment — face high uncertainty in both demand and technology. To illustrate this, consider that patent applications in the U.S.

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more.

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Places full of highly mobile and in-demand workers operate more democratically. Leaders don’t necessarily gain power by dint of high rank; they need to earn it every day. In the words of Empson and Alvehus they have gained “legitimacy to lead through market success.” But having hired such talent, organizations face a challenge.

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

For example, Ford’s River Rouge plant not only assembled cars but also made its own steel, glass, fabrics, power, and cement on-site. There are similar stories in the electronics industry, pet food, pharmaceuticals, and even national security. stock markets. Manufacturing used to be highly vertically integrated in the U.S.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9