The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In that post, I listed a number of things common to the political process that are terrible examples of how to behave when you are really trying to solve a problem or resolve a conflict. We have state-of-the-art medical technology available, IF a person can pay for it. has a great doctor/patient and nurse/patient ratio.

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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.

Bureaucracy 232

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Moderna, a prominent pharmaceutical and biotechnology firm, adopted an unconventional approach utilizing RNA technology to develop one of the COVID-19 vaccines. Similarly, other companies may include board members who bring their expertise from areas like computer science and political science. ”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Firms engage in political “rent seeking”—lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets—rather than competing on innovation. Perhaps profits are rising because firms are increasingly making profitable investments in new technology, in IT, or in their organizational capabilities.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Boards of directors of global corporations will increasingly face strategic choices and capital allocation decisions framed by mounting geo-political risks. pharmaceutical company, had to abandon its $106 billion attempt to buy British drug maker AstraZeneca in the face of opposition from UK politicians. And in 2014, Pfizer, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In his brief welcome, HBS dean Nitin Nohria emphasized that the protests have an economic component as well as a political one. It's not just time for political self-expression," he said. People are asking for economic self-expression." who was at the conference to accept an award.

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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. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurers, and retailers invest millions in risk avoidance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. While these factors undoubtedly have played a role, such explanations are overly simplistic.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. political system, including the 2016 U.S. Unlike some pharmaceuticals, data-opolies do not charge consumers exorbitant prices. ” To target U.S. presidential election.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. There’s trust between the parties and the outcome is not “political.” ” U se of digital technology. ” Health care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. kevin phillips/Getty Images. Some tier-one suppliers to major manufacturers are performing well, but tier-two and -three suppliers in many industries are struggling.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Modest reductions in the cost of borrowing and in supply costs achieved in mergers are often washed out by higher executive compensation, more layers of management, and information technology outlays, leading to higher, rather than lower, operating expenses.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets.

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Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

For the first time in three decades, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) has won so many seats (282 out of 543) in India’s recently-concluded general elections that it can hope to be in office for the next five years without the support of another political party. Global business India Politics'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

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. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

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. Along these lines, California startup LEDR Technologies is pioneering techniques to predict team performance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Exogenous shocks (new technologies, economic-political events) were incorporated as well to train players to stay agile and flexible. How would a pharmaceutical company react, for example, when a new innovation disrupts the industry’s cost structure?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The show, which employs a flagship “edutainment reality” TV format, follows the journey of nine young and aspiring innovators from around the region as they attempt to develop and create their inventions at the laboratories of Qatar Science & Technology Park, a member of QF. ’ It was completely the opposite.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. In the clubby world of pharmaceutical purchasing executives, PACIV’s reputation for transparency spread, setting a higher bar that his competitors begrudgingly were now asked to jump over.

Supply Chain 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

This is taken from The Intercollegiate Finance Journal (IFJ) is an undergraduate student-run journal about how current finance, economics, business and technology issues affect students'' lives. Substantive tax reform is one of the most politically poisonous issues to grapple with in Washington D.C.

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Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

Declining prices of computer hardware enabled American companies to invest heavily in information technology, which in turn, drove a surge in U.S. Here, the political debate becomes muddied, polarized, and even silly. productivity. We were content to let the Chinese and the Indians take the low-valued-added, low-skilled stuff.

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Real Estate Policies Telecommunications Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Are corporate boards as polarized politically as the general population? Female directors are much more evenly split between the two main political parties. The ideological divisions we’re seeing in the political arena have permeated the boardroom.

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Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

New taxes were also mandated on other stakeholders in the health care sector, including the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies, and hospitals. These taxes are critical to the fiscal stability of the ACA programs.

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