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The Mylan EpiPen Debacle: How Tremendous Greed Can Lead to the Demise of a Leader

N2Growth Blog

As you have likely heard, the pharmaceutical company Mylan and its CEO, Heather Bresch, have come under immense scrutiny for the firm’s EpiPen pricing policy. ” “The reality is and the brand pharmaceutical market, this isn’t an EpiPen issue. peanuts, shellfish, insect bites etc.). This isn’t a Mylan issue.

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Adding Too Much Value

Marshall Goldsmith

Garnier, former CEO of the large pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmith Kline, “What did you learn from me when I was your executive coach that helped you the most as a leader?” I asked J.P, “What did you learn about leadership as the CEO?” He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business Review

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. corporations from 1985 to 2015. The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. However, doing this with blanket eliminations of layers carries a risk: inadvertently pruning away the next generation of leadership talent. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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Don’t Forget to Connect Customer Service Week with Strategy

Strategy Driven

As reaffirmed in Gartner’s 2015 report, How to Get Your Customer Service Employees to Care About the Customer , research shows “high levels of employee engagement contribute to higher levels of customer satisfaction.” CJ Stafford is president of Stafford Communications Group Inc.,

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Pharmaceuticals. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. Overall, it is a messy picture.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? When and how should you implement it?