HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Having joined the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, she is now out to raise the bar for human resources leadership across the organization. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions: We operate to uphold justice, promote the rule of law, and develop ethical, transparent, and representative decision-making.

Diversity 102

Diversity Commitment Learning-by-Doing Globalization 102

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

What’s more, military personnel have soft skills that the private sector also values, problem solving, team building, crisis management, dealing with ambiguity, collaboration, and creative thinking among them. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

Agility 50

Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

Your team is A1. If you are planning an expansion, you need to have an efficient and strong team behind you to cope with the demands of growth. When your operational and back office processes are aligned you work efficiently and productively. Your processes are A1.

Audience 50

Audience Niche Marketing How To Marketing Strategy 50

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm. Future leaders will work with their managers in a team approach that combines the leader’s knowledge of unit operations with the manager’s understanding of larger needs. Partnering with managers.

Short-term 107

Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former HR Director and member of executive management team at the National Irish Bank.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. And what can we learn from it? Commercial.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. Beginning at 8:45 AM, care teams and managers in our hospitals and clinics gather in more than 1,500 Tier I huddles.

Health Care 9

Health Care System Metrics Report 9

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. To save the 20-year-old company, I had to get it operating like a start-up. Even individuals on NPS’s leadership team who didn’t embrace our values had to go.

Company 8

Company Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Having managed or worked with clinical leaders in care-delivery organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and government, I have observed three skills that are critical to the success of doctors and nurses as they make the transition to management: Operations management and execution. Setting and defining strategy.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

To truly be a transformative leader in these circumstances, one must go the extra mile to make those who must leave feel like the key employees they are for as long as they are on the team. The first concerns a complex transatlantic acquisition of a biotech company by a pharmaceutical company. The result was galvanizing.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty How To Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Avoid generic terms such as results-driven , proven track record , excellent communication skills , team player. Lead global marketing and commercial operations teams with P&Ls up to $2B.” Note the types of organizations and industries you’ve worked in. Include years of experience. ” Further Reading.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs. Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style.

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In one pharmaceutical R&D company, we identified three critical populations that needed to change to enable the execution of the organization’s strategy. ” Because this approach affected the way the auditors executed their work, the on-the-ground impact and the effectiveness of the audit team improved dramatically.

Skills 9

Skills Agility Learning-by-Doing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Gore, for example, all leaders are “sponsors” of others — they take responsibility for exposing their teams to growth assignments. And fifth, while these companies do have leadership “programs,” they are embedded in the business, and HR does not operate alone.

Leadership Pipeline 11

Leadership Pipeline Leadership After Action Review Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

His boss wanted him to be a more motivating leader to his team. In coaching, while Eric focused on learning ways to motivate the talent on his team, he didn’t address deeper issues, like his perfectionism, that could hold him back in the long run. This meant he was being groomed for ascendance.

Execution 13

Execution 360-Degree Feedback Executive Coaching Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

failure to fully embed operations in China. Despite the differences between the inside view and the outside view, these factors have converged in three clusters: (1) poor understanding of the business environment, (2) ineffective strategy making and communication, and (3) underperformance in operation and execution.

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Her successor, Ed Breen, was quoted as saying , “as we confront a challenging environment, [Kullman] and the management team already have taken actions to accelerate cost reductions. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

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. Paul and his team were able to thrive and contribute to the organization. When he started at his company, it was young, relatively small, and doing cutting-edge research.

COO 11

COO Short-term Pharmaceuticals Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication.

Company 15

Company Agility Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Brower designed a faculty “externship” where she left her university office and for two months become part of global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly’s daily operations. One of us, Holly Brower, decided to put this question to the test. Rather than act as an outside consultant, she would work as an insider.

Company 8

Company Education Pharmaceuticals Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

The bulk of HCIT investment supports startups that sell data — clinical or operational information that is otherwise difficult for clients to obtain or to organize. Proteus analytics support patient and family engagement and care-team coaching to drive clinical improvement. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

Health Care 8

Health Care Levitt Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Everyone" includes primary care doctors, medical specialists, nurses, hospital administrators, health insurance providers, nutritionists, pharmaceutical companies, medical technology manufacturers, fitness gurus, paraprofessionals, public health commissioners, and charities dedicated to a disease.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

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? That includes identifying your current mix of assets and the business model that your asset portfolio creates.

Intangible Assets 9

Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In a project for a pharmaceutical company, we were able to isolate the specific information sources that drove positive and negative sentiment toward the client’s brand. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

Company 8

Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Executive teams need to assess their industries’ and companies’ time horizons for the technology, because they will have a huge amount of strategic and business process planning to do before their companies adopt it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Nadathur's portfolio includes firms operating in drug discovery research, companion diagnostics, pharmaceutical analytics, reimbursement claims processing, patient relationship management, and specialty healthcare delivery for running clinical trials — and they all work together.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. paul Garbett for HBR.

Leadership 9

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

These diverse groups of volunteer employees work across organizational boundaries and outside of their regular operational duties. Japanese pharmaceutical Eisai used them to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients. Painted on many of the walls were huge whiteboards, where the three teams worked on designs and exchanged ideas.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. Growing to 20 people working in a more traditional office setting did not strike anyone as extreme change, yet the team found it had to work a lot harder to unearth problems and opportunities.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. We see similar findings in research looking at individual work teams. Lilly’s research shows these same effects can happen between members of alliance innovation teams.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Survey Strategic Fit 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2015

American companies with strong performance in international markets frequently have a founder or a prominent executive on their team who is either from a foreign country or is a first-generation American. What percentage of your sales team? The engineering team builds software with international users in mind. By customer base?

Company 8

Company Globalization Software Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

When pharmaceutical companies launch a life-saving drug, they regularly spend twice as much on marketing as on the drug development. A team of U.S. Even though these programs were covered by insurance, making them essentially free, only 20,000 adults took advantage, or less than 1/1000th of 1% of the at-risk population.

Innovation 8

Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 8