Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). But as veterans of the U.S. Change management. View the U.S.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Leadership Bottom-up Leadership Pipeline 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

Few issues are more foundational to driving improvements in human health than creating productive, progressive relationships between clinical medicine and the biopharmaceutical industry. During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations.

Conflict of Interest 10

Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals Policies Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 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. .”

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country's economic future.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As leaders, do physicians create a more sympathetic and productive work environment for other clinicians, because they are “one of them”? But we would argue that credibility may also be signaled to important external stakeholders — future employees, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and so on.

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

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

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 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. Compensation should be tied to broad-based outcomes and include things such as customer satisfaction and product knowledge, in addition to success at closing deals. Picture this. Your first assignment is to land an oil field services contract abroad.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 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. “I told the hiring manager that I had a very firm grasp of those products,” she says.

How To 13

How To Long-term Marketing Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

It's amazing how much one troubled employee can undermine a department's productivity. Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs.

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). Lunch Roulette not only produces unexpected pairings but often sparks unexpected conversations, as Tan discovered when he was matched with someone in research and development. 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

MARCH 17, 2011

Employees can manage their own careers and schedules, using on-line benefits management, job posting systems, training, email, scheduling, and so forth. A pharmaceutical company did something similar for safety scientists. No one knows better than the users themselves what they need. Thinking is the core of most professional work.

Document 14

Document Information Management Pharmaceuticals Cost 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. Because of Kendall Square’s concentration of talent, and its infrastructure, Novartis, the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company, moved nearly its entire research center here from Switzerland. As it develops, the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We don’t see news headlines that say, “Low-risk approach forces local business to file for bankruptcy,” or, “Stunningly conservative move pushes global pharmaceutical company to the brink of failure,” or “Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.”. I was frustrated.

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

For over a decade, students in my classes, as well as thousands of employees in hundreds of companies, have found that three steps make it possible for men to overcome the obstacles and lean in more at home in ways that, at the same time, benefit their careers. I feel more productive, motivated, and focused as a result of this experiment.

Delegation 9

Delegation Commitment Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

You shouldn’t point out a problem without also having a constructive solution — or a plan for developing one — to offer. Ten years into her career there, in the mid-1990s, she realized that the agency’s business model was lacking a digital strategy. “I Be sure you have a solution. Case study #1: Make it part of your job.

How To 12

How To Case Study Politics Reputation 12

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. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

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. The women led companies in various industries including financial services, consumer products, and healthcare.

Execution 11

Execution Strategy Self-aware Career 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place. So what to do? Tolerance of Failure. It is axiomatic that successful innovation requires tolerance of failure.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

So for companies looking to create revolutionary products, identifying and accessing cutting edge, exploratory research is a key competitive advantage. As Bush wrote in 1945: “New products and new processes do not appear full-grown. In the pharmaceutical industry, the monitoring process can be incredibly elaborate.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

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