Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals.

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

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%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers.

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

JANUARY 25, 2012

I learned the critical importance of networking, and discovered my natural aversion to it, early in my career. That night, because of the small turnout, I had the pleasure and advantage of engaging in one-on-one conversations with some of the company's top executives, an experience that would prove crucially important in advancing my career.

Pharmaceuticals 20

Pharmaceuticals Conference Learning-by-Doing Strategic Planning 20

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. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Six months later the corporate HR manager visited these mines to help with the transition and was surprised to learn that the planning hadn’t even begun. Despite not having sufficient new products to replace these losses, the team delayed making commensurate cost reductions, with each manager saying that their people were indispensable.

Pharmaceuticals 13

Pharmaceuticals Discount Learning-by-Doing Team 13

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.”

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Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

But don’t assume your impressive résumé will guarantee you an offer, says Berrin Erdogan, a professor of management at Portland State University and the lead author of a recent study on the subject. “Hiring managers are not always eager to bring on someone who is overqualified.”

How To 13

How To Long-term Marketing Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

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 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

With sophisticated document management systems, global connectivity, and on-line networks professionals can find research reports, best practices, articles and experts from anywhere in the world. Self-service information management makes sense — to a point. No one knows better than the users themselves what they need.

Document 14

Document Information Management Pharmaceuticals Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The region with the greatest board-level skills gap is Asia, where risk management and M&A adeptness are sorely needed.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

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. What’s the tone from upper management? 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

OCTOBER 22, 2013

She kicked off her October management team meeting, which I was attending, by reading the following passage from my book: The dangers of taking too much risk are very clear. I didn’t think the meeting was very productive. Risk management Strategy' We’re reminded of them in the news every day. I was frustrated.

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

On average, one of them will be sexually harassed during the next 4 years, before she has even begun her career as a physician’ ” The efforts of many healthcare organizations and medical centers tend to go little further than avoiding litigation. This needs to change.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies How To Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

You don’t want to run to your manager every time you want something to change,” Dillon says. Ten years into her career there, in the mid-1990s, she realized that the agency’s business model was lacking a digital strategy. “I The hiring manager told her that she’d given him a lot to think about and eventually offered her the position.

How To 12

How To Case Study Politics Reputation 12

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

MAY 10, 2018

of senior management and executive roles of S&P 500 firms, 2.2% 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% of the U.S.

Execution 11

Execution Strategy Self-aware Career 11

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

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

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. 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.

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. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. That's before the Great Recession. The economic value of much innovation accrued to China instead.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

“When I joined the company, the front line management jobs were the best,” the CEO told us. He had started his career in one of those jobs, as a country manager, and worked his way up. The key product and customer jobs no longer attracted the best talent. One senior manager told us: “You never miss it.

Execution 10

Execution Bureaucracy Self-aware CEO 10