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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. To save the 20-year-old company, I had to get it operating like a start-up. My senior executives and I made our values the language of leadership. This must come from the top.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

“But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” ” That’s really essential, because the different players often have widely divergent incentives. Firms have also invested additional money to build facilities near the hubs to better integrate their operations with them.