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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The transmission of customer knowledge through multiple layers often causes distortion and risks the addition of personal agendas, or ”managing upward,” with people telling the CEO what they think he wants to hear. We turned to our frontline managers who knew the customer intimately and asked for their help and advice.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Consider the following scenario: A manager wants to purchase some computer software for her business. The manager peruses that company’s website and requests more information by entering data about her needs through a webform. The mounting number of inconsistencies and redundancies confuse and frustrate the manager.

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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

APRIL 4, 2018

Or the notorious case of Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who failed to apologize for dramatically raising the price of a life-saving drug. Here is some concrete advice for leaders trying to balance authority and humility. So, should a leader aim to be humble?

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 19, 2011

A Boomer’s Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day. As a young Brand Manager, I pounced on consumer insecurities, pumping products that solved bad breath, armpit odor, yellow teeth and bad skin. So do pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Pfizer. One Response to A Boomer’s Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Certainly it is a world in which managers talk solemnly about their "engagement" efforts. Of course, we sometimes see such passion in the business world, in the wild enthusiasms of R&D professionals in innovative engineering and pharmaceutical companies. So what can the corporate world learn from all this?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. The executives came from a wide array of industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, and media. The average coaching engagement lasted six to 12 months.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

With sophisticated document management systems, global connectivity, and on-line networks professionals can find research reports, best practices, articles and experts from anywhere in the world. Self-service information management makes sense — to a point. No one knows better than the users themselves what they need.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. Undertakings with $20 million price tags such as the post-merger integration of a giant pharmaceutical client and its equally humongous acquisition. Monitor & Co., He is based in New York City and Boston.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

I made a career switch seven years ago, when I went from working as a reporter at the Financial Times , where I covered health care in the United States, to consulting — advising CEOs in the pharmaceutical industry on thought leadership and articulating their corporate strategies.

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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

APRIL 22, 2013

Most of us think of biotech as the province of multinational pharmaceutical corporations and well-funded ventures, but the founders of BioCurious believe (as they say in their mission statement) "that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone." Socialize your underused assets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Organizations know this learning is important, which is why they invest significant resources in handbooks, protocols, formal mentoring programs, and knowledge management systems to share employees’ experiences. As a manager for Bain & Co. billion per year from employees failing to share knowledge effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Big data and analytics can make organizations more efficient and agile by empowering middle-level and far-flung managers to make decisions and seize business opportunities that previously required scarce data and executive approval. For example, a study of a multinational pharmaceutical company revealed that leaders in its U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

” Given research that shows anger’s impact on cardiovascular health , it is critical that leaders be able to manage their anger, and put themselves in others’ shoes. I would just get angry if they did not perform according to my expectations. “Thanks to meditation I have developed patience.” ” Archana says.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 8, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. The Kansas City Star newspaper recently featured a story about Marion Laboratories and its 60th anniversary.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

They will now be a “one product company” focused on Basecamp, its popular project management software. Despite all of this advice, the kind of radical focus exhibited by 37signals (now Basecamp) is difficult for managers who often act like kids in a candy store. “Refocusing” might be an understatement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. Compliance is crucial for pharmaceutical makers such as Abbott and Amgen – a “ Form 483 ” warning from an FDA inspector can shut down a drug facility in an instant and even land top executives in jail.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” At IBM, mid-level managers also serve as the first line of defense for cross-functional escalation issues.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2019

With this advice, you are certain to appreciate and learn more about the industries that shape the world we live in. If that isn’t a sign of progress, it’s hard to know what is.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Finally, industries in the upper-right quadrant — such as software, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment — face high uncertainty in both demand and technology. In our new book, The Innovator’s Method , we show how managers can adapt these tools, in an end-to-end process, for managing innovation.

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