Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Based on these criteria, I see pharmaceutical companies as primarily profit-driven. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. exhibits behavior that can be seen as self-serving and manipulative. ?

Blanchard 195

Blanchard Pharmaceuticals Consultative Retail 195

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

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. With the exception of two jet-engine factories and two plants that make heavy equipment, all were located outside the United States. If that surprises you, you're not alone.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Take pharmaceuticals. For example, as blockbuster drug patents expire, the pharmaceutical companies are looking for more nuanced ways to build competitive advantage by focusing on specialties or building scale in over-the-counter medicines. Corporate marriage brokers are again fully employed. Take the Novartis-GSK deals.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Competitive Advantage Engineering Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Career opportunities for women in "the New India" are rapidly expanding, but family expectations and social mores remain rooted in tradition. Not surprisingly, the most stress is felt among women between 25 and 55 years of age, who are trying to balance demanding careers with obligations at home.

Stress 14

Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Sharpe 14

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 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.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

For the pharmaceutical industry to remain financially viable, for example, we need scientists who can not only develop new life-saving medicines, but who can do it in a time- and cost-efficient manner. This challenge has been especially difficult at the entry levels of science and engineering. That requires integrative thinking.

Education 12

Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

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. Building a career of positive productivity and learning is hard enough in a company that helps you along.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

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. How’d that work out?)

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser. Roger is the oldest son of an electrical engineer in the Midwest. While he longed to advance in his career, Roger had developed a bad habit of avoiding conflict. They are also easily disconcerted by the withdrawal of approval.

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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. Since taking the job four years ago, he has sought ways of giving greater responsibility to his 80-person division of software engineers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

One day, Alvin approaches Manuel and tells him he wants to make a major career shift. Why it works: Delivered in a calm and candid tone, this sentence can save a career or life-altering moment from becoming a decimating event with an alienating outcome by: Giving the other person a moment to brace themselves. Manuel says nothing.

EVA 8

EVA How To Hotels Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. For example, Medtronic enables its engineers and technicians to see the medical devices they’ve made in action, so that they can see the purpose of their work.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 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

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. But as she began to consider her future at the company, she realized that all of the people above her were white, male engineers or accountants.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

3M and Google, among others, have given "innovation time off" to their scientists and engineers. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. So a more focused approach may be more worthwhile. Tolerance of Failure.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

million new jobs would be created over the next decade in "leading edge" industries such as IT, aerospace, telecom, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and electronic component manufacturing. The Corporate Elite continued to do what they did most of their careers: increase efficiencies, boost scale, and lower costs to maximize profits.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

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.”. And they can find the secrets to enjoying a brilliant career in an organization where so many are brilliant.

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8