First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 21, 2012

An entrepreneur and veteran of the computer industry, Frank Moss spent his career bringing innovative technologies to market. Ten years ago he set out to make a broader contribution to the world, leading him to cofound a cancer drug discovery company and then to the MIT Media Lab, where he served as director from 2006 [.].

Entrepreneur 80

Entrepreneur Media Technology Innovation 80

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. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”, replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. He neither had space nor money to start out.

Directory 84

Directory Blog Pharmaceuticals Quality 84

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.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In addition to signaling a strong economy, a tight labor market typically improves job prospects for groups with fewer skills and less experience, including teens. But for those who might not be college-bound, it appears that fewer pathways exist to enter the labor market. However, as of July 2018, the U.S. Refocusing on Summer Jobs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Participative Long-term Career 8

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.

Belief Systems 8

Belief Systems Executive Coaching Stress Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

She recommends explaining your interest in terms of your career objectives.” Lauren, who had several years of professional experience, a background in development, and a degree in business, was out of a job. Today she is a career adviser and hiring manager at resumecompanion.com. ” Nevertheless, he wanted the job.

How To 13

How To Long-term Marketing Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). He emailed Christopher Tan, a marketer with an interest in mobile technologies and experience building applications, and within 36 hours, they had come up with a prototype. But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done.

Company 9

Company Pharmaceuticals Health Care Participative 9

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.

COO 11

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser. He reached out for coaching when one of his reporting senior marketing staff members was grabbing credit for other people's work and undermining his department's efforts.

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. I’ve been watching the global economy for decades, and it seems to me that growth in the United States is about to speed up, while growth in the emerging markets is slowing down. As it develops, the U.S. How’d that work out?)

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Businesses, families, and individuals are ruined in shocking fashion—“150-year-old bank and pillar of Wall Street is gone in the blink of an eye”; “Major oil company loses $90 billion in market value in three months”; “Kite surfer tries his luck in a hurricane and slams into a building.” Astounding lapses in judgment are everywhere.

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

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. “You want to be able to demonstrate how you add value and how you’ve made a difference to the company.”

How To 8

How To Case Study Restructuring Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b Japanese pharmaceutical Eisai used them to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients. ’ It helped me think about the NYPL system and where my career could go here.” in less than five years.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

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.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

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. By mid-career, they started strategically taking on risky assignments to become more visible. Gaining Self-Awareness.

Execution 11

Execution Strategy Self-aware Career 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

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.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

In the words of Empson and Alvehus they have gained “legitimacy to lead through market success.” 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.”. Consulting Leadership Leadership development'

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8