Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2018

“The problem is with the Mexicans, or the Muslims, or the banks, or the police, or the pharmaceutical companies.” Certainty may get votes, but it isn’t leadership. We aren’t children. Where is the courage—on either side of the political aisle—to admit that the world is complex?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Having joined the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, she is now out to raise the bar for human resources leadership across the organization. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Pfizer continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). The HR Digest: What is diversity to you? colleagues.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

Yu examines pharmaceutical companies like Novartis and the soap company P&G to see how they moved across knowledge disciplines to leverage or create new knowledge on how their product was made. Corporate leaders need to absorb career risks…. Principle 2: Acquire and cultivate new knowledge disciplines.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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QAspire

JANUARY 24, 2010

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. Life Lesson on Endurance Other Links to this Post QAspire Blog - Quality, Management, Leadership & Life! “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Belief Systems Executive Coaching Stress Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients. .”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Maximizing the effectiveness of physicians and nurses in these new positions, however, will require different skills than the ones they developed during their clinical training. People leadership. When thrust into a management or leadership position, many clinicians have never hired or fired anyone in their life.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. ” But this is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2007 (after a long career at IBM, Kodak, Silicon Graphics, and other companies), I have visited hundreds of factories.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

People of color too often feel that they have to hide their true selves at work, according to "Vaulting the Color Bar: How Sponsorship Levers Multicultural Professionals into Leadership," a new research report from the Center for Talent Innovation. Notes a focus group participant, "You start to be less of who you are. You start tiptoeing."

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Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty Focus Group 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software. Image: Gareth Lock Train hard, fight easy Gareth also has a 25-year RAF career behind him. I often see more lessons identified than lessons actually learned.

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Uncertainty Risk Management Training Compliance 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. Despite having solid internal anti-corruption rules in place, the pharmaceutical giant wound up facing criminal investigations for bribing doctors and foreign officials , eventually paying a $489 million fine. Picture this. Consider the case of GSK.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Because organizations are increasingly focusing on early talent development to attract and retain young talent, it’s important to understand the best way to accelerate their growth as leaders. The executives came from a wide array of industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, and media.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser. While he longed to advance in his career, Roger had developed a bad habit of avoiding conflict. As a result, many Pleasers grow up hungry for validation and hard-wired to take care of others.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

“But there’s an art to the ask,” says Diana Faison, a partner with leadership development firm Flynn Heath Holt Leadership. What the Experts Say. It can be difficult to approach your manager for a raise. Compare yourself to a colleague. The request is about your work and your value to the company.

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How To Case Study Restructuring Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point. Japanese pharmaceutical Eisai used them to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients. Having to develop testable hypotheses forced the participants to think deeply about how to structure their work so that it was rigorous and data-driven.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

What the chart shows is that while we tend to think that leadership matters most to motivation, other processes can have an even bigger impact. Gore & Associates gives people free time and resources to develop new ideas. The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Black women continue to be sorely underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. We sought to understand the barriers they faced, their strategies for ascending through the organization, and the tools they used to manage significant organizational change efforts and navigate career risks. Currently, they make up 12.7%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. Today, she’s the Head of Stakeholder Engagement for their in-development Dengue Fever vaccine — one of Sanofi’s largest business initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership. They are founded on new principles and new conceptions, which in turn are painstakingly developed by research in the purest realms of science.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Over the last few years, its big new product lines — including a healthy Veg Pot and its This Water line — have both come from ideas conceived and developed by mid-level employees. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

So there is something about needing to keep all 500 partners happy which brings a level of politics, which you wouldn’t get if we were an engineering company or a pharmaceuticals company.”. But they display the attitude toward leadership that it is not work one would choose, only a responsibility that should be shouldered by “one of us.”.

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