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How We Built a New Company Culture

Harvard Business Review

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. My senior executives and I made our values the language of leadership. Even individuals on NPS’s leadership team who didn’t embrace our values had to go.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

” That’s really essential, because the different players often have widely divergent incentives. Other nations may challenge that leadership in one industry or another, but nobody can match the breadth and depth of the United States. . “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.”

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Innovative Companies Get Their Best Ideas from Academic Research — Here’s How They Do It

Harvard Business Review

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership. vincent tsui FOR HBR.