Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

In fact, his inventions in three-phase electric power and alternating current eventually enabled the global distribution of electricity as we know it. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) and we like to stick to our knitting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., Asia into North America).

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Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

In the coming eight weeks, we are engaging in a global effort to focus more of the entrepreneurship conversation on scale-ups and their positive impacts on societies and economies. But wait a minute – is starting more new businesses always a good thing?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. In contrast, New England has increasingly become a hub for ventures in life sciences; the first three-quarters of 2016 saw almost 60% of VC investments in New England go to ventures in biotechnology and medical devices.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Their behavior displays promising parallels to the early days of the biotechnology industry. 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. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Globally, the energy sector is valued in excess of $7 trillion and by 2035 it is anticipated that the global demand for energy will increase by as much as 30%. This increased the need for care items for the elderly and there are plenty of gaps in the market for the healthcare sector.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Leading the list are the economy; the regulatory environment; and cybersecurity, according to our global survey of over 4,000 corporate directors, conducted in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation, led by Susan Stautberg, Spencer Stuart, led by Julie Hembrock Daum, and independent researcher Deborah Bell. With the 2016 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

After all, if acquisitions pay off they can provide a transformational antidote to a slowing core market and declining margins. Our experience with many global companies across industries and sectors has revealed a framework for pursuing growth through acquisition that lowers risks and helps beat the odds.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., Where was its leadership bench?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

And of course that's true — but the commodities market has been booming only in recent years, and the bank's track record is long and impressive. Is it possible that local funding could help bolster tourism in Florida, biotechnology in California, publishing in New York, and agriculture in Iowa?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Use Convergence Thinking. What two or more areas are merging?

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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. They’re also sharing risk. The new business model has yet to solidify, and the leaders have yet to emerge. The positions are there for the taking. But not for long. The options are tangible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. Profit-driven companies, on the other hand, feel so much pressure to go to market that they often pass on ideas with vast potential. The Valley of Death.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination. Just six years after the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term, the sector is booming. Surely we can do the same for impact investing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology. Learn more about your market value. Start a blog.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It will increasingly help government health agencies, payers, and providers to make decisions about such issues as drug discovery, patient access, and marketing. A recent example of the kind of work it conducts is the creation of a database on a historical cohort of real-world patients previously diagnosed with cancer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials. A decade from now we may look back at China's 12th Five-Year Plan as the seminal document of the early 21st century. It pledges $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

While it’s understandable that stock and currency markets would react this way to the outcome of the election, I believe that it’s somewhat of an overreaction. That’s how they climb the global value chain. The price of steel is set in international markets and is subject to high cyclical variations.

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