Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

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Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” For example, if you asked Larry Page, CEO of Google, to define his company, do you think his answer would be, “We’re a search engine”? This is quite understandable. Not very likely.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

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.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Let’s look at the case of a pharmaceutical company we worked with. All the data were stitched together and fed into an automated-feature-discovery (AFD) machine learning engine that allowed the company to test millions of hypotheses within hours. An iterative test-and-learn process is critical to developing an accurate model.

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Company Health Care Business Intelligence Analysis 8

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Over the same period, pharmaceutical exports have doubled. Victor Albrow/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Science and engineering professionals work closely with experienced technicians to produce next-generation batteries, not forged metal. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. But just as U.S.

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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. But this was not the first time its policies were violated.

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Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. They are known for demonstrating a special sensitivity to the market needs of the specialized manufacturers who use their services.

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Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

We also find that companies in developed areas plan to hire in other developed regions (e.g., North America in Western Europe and vice versa) and many countries in developing regions are moving into developed regions (e.g., Asia into North America). All this presents a special challenge for Western European companies.

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Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

In today's climate of intense competition, we must find ways to develop " integrative thinking " — the thinking that leads to new business ideas, especially in science and technology. This challenge has been especially difficult at the entry levels of science and engineering. That requires integrative thinking.

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Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 12

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.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

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. an engine manufacturer, began building an engine for long-haul trucks optimized to run on natural gas. As it develops, the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Consider the recent phenomena of shoestring 3D design labs or the biofabrication labs at MIT , which are taking the plunge into synthetic biology with far fewer resources than the genetic engineers at government labs. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

.” CEOs also worried about whether their high potential employees were being properly developed. food processor General Mills, noting that his company was quickly expanding internationally, said, “One of our challenges was how to develop a truly globally mobile culture. Ken Powell of U.S. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

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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Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

They derive a social identity from that team — but often miss the multiple layers of leadership needed for any team to develop and sustain performance. The drug development team leader at a major pharmaceutical company saw his role as the world-wide leader, not just within his country or therapeutic area.

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Team Sports Pharmaceuticals PR 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Almost every CEO I’ve talked to, before and after the polls, believes that Modi is a shrewd, pragmatic, and decisive leader, who can kick-start economic growth and development in India by fostering a more business-friendly policy environment. Still, India has a chance to return to the path of rapid economic development.

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Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 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.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Team members have varied experience from industrial engineers to nurses and physicians, and a physician has responsibility for the team. Our clinics reported the early development of the disease in huddles. The Continuous Improvement Team consists of about 50 caregivers who are spread geographically across the system.

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Health Care System Metrics Report 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets. Even with this added understanding, cooling down the competitive engine is difficult for most. Sure there are major differences in values and governance — and thus a true competition of ideology and influence.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Develop Creative Discontent. Frugal innovations require frugal thinking — an ability to engineer cost?conscious

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., Where was its leadership bench?

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

I found myself reflecting on this recently while speaking with two business leaders in one of the world’s great pharmaceutical companies. At Nokia, the senior leadership team was for a long time extraordinarily homogenous (mostly men, mostly from Finland, mostly software engineers, mostly educated in Helsinki). It’s a tough challenge.

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

For these reasons, we need to look beyond the current horizon of those who already have diabetes and get a firmer grip on the even greater proportion of the population — nearly 2 billion people — who are at risk of developing the condition. Make health a priority in urban planning.

Health Care 8

Health Care NGO Pharmaceuticals Globalization 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.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. failure to develop and communicate business strategies effectively. This is reflected in seven factors: lack of a deep (enough) understanding of the Chinese market. poor management of relations with Chinese regulators and the government. market on China.

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Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. Innovating the Innovation Process.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 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.

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Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

million industrial robots are in use or available in various industries including automotive, electronics, rubber and plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage. By 2003, there were 800,000. Today, more than 1.3 Their market value is $9.5 A more complete history can be found here.).

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Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 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. Gore & Associates gives people free time and resources to develop new ideas. 2) What is culture worth? 3) What processes in an organization affect culture?

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Mae-Li is a partner and head of the most important research team at a pharmaceutical company. Giving others the heads up that the outcome matters to you enough that you will be tracking it as it develops. Eva is an engineer in Silicon Valley. Jay shakes his hand and heads back to his desk. This is my preference.”

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EVA How To Hotels Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Regeneratives are pharmaceutical cell therapy products that replace or restore cells and tissues lost to disease or aging. Some regenerative medicines stimulate our bodies to regrow or repair, so the field can include the use of stem cells for tissue engineering. Gene therapy is also a part of this trend. Agilis Biotherapeutics, a U.S.

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