Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

” ~ Arianna Huffington A hectic work schedule, increased responsibility, new technology, and the need to read and respond to a daily deluge of email and voicemail place huge demands on your work life. With all this pressure, you might feel as if your work is a prison that you can never escape. And yet the U.S.

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Tips Biotechnology Objective Learning-by-Doing 120

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Leapfrogging advances in materials, photonics, optics, and electronics have precipitated a rising demand for 3D display technologies. The increased demand for enhanced imaging and the adoption of 3D technologies in smartphones, HMD devices, projector devices, and monitors are expected to catapult 3D displays across a new threshold of realism.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Innovation Capital. I think ideas come from everywhere.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Research created an elaborate robotic system to streamline the user experience for one of the flagship product lines. I cringed when I heard the story. Bad management?

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies improve productivity and facilitate better living standards when they penetrate into societies.

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Information Technology Technology Information Trends 15

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. Helping Employees Regain Their Productivity After A Prolonged Absence.

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. Yet the Valley of Death still remains. Killing Ideas Faster.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

It's an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. Gordon's productivity research.) but the emerging markets boom has generally been more about catching up than exploiting cutting-edge technology.). Even beyond the technological challenges, there are lots of other obstacles to change. Or something like that.

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Stephenson Innovation Biotechnology eBook 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. The same underlying technologies (e.g., Silicon Valley dominates these platform technologies. The likely trend in global technology entrepreneurship?

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Biotechnology Drucker Software Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Fortunes have been made from implants, surgical instruments, and artificial products. And biotechnology and medical devices are among the leading areas for venture capital funding. Coordinating health care information technology requires government action, which was a decade slow in coming.

Health Care 15

Health Care Biotechnology Mayo Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Are we going to have to work really hard to differentiate the product or products that result from the acquisition? Consider the pharma industry'sdeals standard practice of buying products or companies chasing known therapeutic targets. The deal should be based on something other than a Hail Mary pass or ill-defined synergies.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The reason for the interest in in part because the industry has suffered from poor returns on investment over the last decade; indeed, some sectors, including biotechnology, report negative aggregate returns. China and India, in particular, offer attractive liquidity and investment opportunities VCs haven't seen for a while.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. This also stands in stark contrast to the steps that Apple, Google, and other technology companies take to avoid paying taxes. government's risky investments have had for technology-based corporations.

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Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

As we’ve written previously , the best path to accelerated growth with limited risk often comes from creating new products and services that leverage a company’s existing resources, customers, and capabilities. Gillette dominated the men’s shaving market with its Mach series of razors.

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Strategy Company Biotechnology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

You may ask, what are some risky investments that stand a high chance of failure but, if successful, enable larger technological leaps that promise earthshaking impact? Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Find Pivots. Think Frugally.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

’s “once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world.” .” This groundbreaking report, commissioned by President Ronald Reagan, concluded that the U.S.’s ” Unfortunately, this goal hasn’t been met.

Education 8

Education Company Biotechnology Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

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. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. facility in Cambridge Science Park. Reliance MediaWorks. Decentralize and empower global R&D units.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

If we want to have a strong economy, we need to make sure we’re tilting the playing field in favor of entrepreneurs that are trying to challenge the status quo, innovate, create new products and services, disrupt existing industry, usher in a new way. Because if we don’t do that, somebody else will. I think venture capitalists do play a role.

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Venture Capitalist Company Biotechnology Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program.

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Exciting applications have already been demonstrated across all sectors — from aerospace and medical applications to biotechnology and food production. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. 3D printing technology undoubtedly has great potential. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Tacit Knowledge Contract Manufacturing Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity gains likely to continue (a good thing), it is hard to imagine how manufacturing could ever return to its glory days, when it employed about a quarter of the U.S.

Health Care 9

Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.". chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. That’s because there are two primary types of uncertainty — demand uncertainty (will customers buy your product?) and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) Consider the 2×2 matrix below.

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

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First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Mary Shelley told us nothing about the future of biotechnology, but the popularity and plausibility of Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus tells us a lot about 1818’s fears and aspirations for technology and its relation to society. What science fiction has always done brilliantly, though, is predict the present.

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Class Open-book Politics Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

New Zealand is the world’s largest exporter of dairy products. Intense biotechnology research and development activities at some of the country’s universities (and their research farms) have raised the complexity and level of the industry’s outputs. Expand into more products and industries.

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Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,

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