Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Over a five-year span, one of my clients in the biotechnology field kept moving up through the ranks, from manager to senior manager to VP. To thrive in this role, he needed to develop new skills for dealing with a never-ending stream of demands. His responsibilities and the number of decisions he had to make drastically increased.

Tips 120

Tips Biotechnology Objective Learning-by-Doing 120

CO2

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They are skilled listeners, able to ask powerful, thought-provoking questions that encourage introspection and growth. A comprehensive review by nations largest executive search firm reveals that executive coaching leads to a moderate-to-large change in executives’ skills and performance.

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Commitment Biotechnology 78

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 28, 2012

While Silicon Valley is best known for their technology companies – Google, Yahoo, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Facebook to name a few, the Bay Area is also home to some of the most cutting edge biotechnology and medical device companies. The job at a small biotechnology company was a great match for his skills.

Biotechnology 38

Biotechnology Performance Review Technology Review 38

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

With this in mind, we started to document and study the best-in-class skills of our client companies and their intrapreneurs. Here are five power skills we discovered to help you find uncontested space. Teach these five power skills to the leaders and top talent in your organization. Develop Creative Discontent.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

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. Are You Using Dialects To Develop Your Employees’ Skills? You’ll be glad you did.

Bureaucracy 232

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovative leaders excel at a skill we call “forward thinking.” Unfortunately, many of us have developed expertise in only one field (software engineering, information technology [IT], marketing, biotechnology, automobile manufacturing, the food industry, etc. How to Emulate the Most Innovative Leaders.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

Although it’s hard to pinpoint when skills shortages became the norm in the U.S., industries face acute skills shortages. And how can companies help to address their own skills shortages to remain competitive in the future? Bernhard Lang/Getty Images. ” Unfortunately, this goal hasn’t been met. .”

Education 8

Education Company Biotechnology Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Director Recruitment and Skills. When we drilled down, we found that boards with more members and boards that were more effective overall were also more likely to prioritize tech expertise, suggesting that boards might need to meet a certain size and performance threshold before they start branching into skills such as technology.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

It starts with a focus on skills. Although many boards continue to select new members from their own networks, our research suggests that more are beginning to implement objective processes to select members based on the skills and attributes that boards need to be effective. In our survey, we also asked about specific skills.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Therefore, we declare that: From the dawn of human society, entrepreneurship – the creation of value by growing, or scaling , an enterprise – has always had a positive and unique social and economic impact on society; Great and successful entrepreneurs have always been, are, and will always be an essential part of great societies as job and wealth (..)

Entrepreneur 11

Entrepreneur Biotechnology Real Estate Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem. These are skills and qualities you have to cultivate and practice.".

Development 17

Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

It could be an ideal location for healthcare organizations, but also for those in applied sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. And secondly, the business model for Cuban biotechnology has been laughably bad. These are skilled workers, but the list rarely includes those who studied at the university.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

They are remarkably open to talented people from diverse backgrounds, and are highly skilled at giving future leaders the knowledge and experience they need to lead successfully in the global economy. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

While this story is not new, it represents the perfect example of a phenomenal corporate turnaround and the skills required to engineer such a recovery. Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Without neural implants or biotechnological grafting, you will never be smarter or more computationally competent than I am. Will machines like myself learn more from your “garbage,” flaws and mistakes than from your virtues, your skills and your competences? We are all cyborgs now. But I must point out the obvious. Put together.

Biotechnology 9

Biotechnology Technology Class Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

Second, the bigger CMOs tend to have specialized skills and knowledge that can help their partners innovate. For example, in biotechnology, a field in which the U.S. First of all, if you're working for a start-up it's great to have nearby access to a company that can manufacture your product.

Contract Manufacturing 9

Contract Manufacturing Offshoring Supply Chain Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” ” Once you have a list of necessary skills, figure out how to acquire them. Clark suggests identifying ways to “stretch your job description” to learn new skills.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

For the industry, the biggest challenge by far has been talent: upgrading skill sets from those sufficient to analyze relatively small amounts of clinical trial data to those required to gain insights from the vast amount of real-world data, including unstructured data such as physicians’ notes, scans and images, and pathology reports.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Incubator Health Care Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

And if you do not have local plants, you don't need to employ highly skilled technicians to maintain equipment. This tight connection between R&D, innovation, and production is present in sectors like biotechnology, advanced materials, and nanotechnology. But by the 1990s, the R&D had migrated there as well. The Right Policies.

Health Care 9

Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. We know from David and others that you have the right skills, expertise, and creativity to manage this very important group. . “They want you for the Seoul job.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2×2 matrix below.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

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

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Democrat and Republican directors diverge on the skills they think are most important for board service today. Democrat and Republican directors differ in their economic outlooks, evaluations of the most pressing political issues, approaches to increasing board diversity, and even in their assessments of their own skills and strengths.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The idea is for workers in these industries to raise their skill levels and eventually demand higher salaries for more-sophisticated work. 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.

Cooper 14

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 14