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. What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Unlike some pharmaceuticals, data-opolies do not charge consumers exorbitant prices.

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

What happened is very well documented: they kept running down the maintenance budget, pushing their operating budget to make their numbers. If you’re Amazon, Disney, some of the pharmaceuticals…the markets support their huge long-term investments because they can see where the investments will lead. Insight Center.

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Eight of the CEOs pointed to the challenges of operating in a fast-paced global marketplace. As a pharmaceutical company, we obviously were part of that whole ecosystem.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

failure to fully embed operations in China. Despite the differences between the inside view and the outside view, these factors have converged in three clusters: (1) poor understanding of the business environment, (2) ineffective strategy making and communication, and (3) underperformance in operation and execution.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

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. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. 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.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets. Organizations can't operate effectively unless people share information, work together to solve problems, and help each other get the job done. But at the economic level, competition is much more nuanced and even muted.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

Rogers 15

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 15

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

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The most common source of joint value is economies of scale , which allow for a reduction in the costs of either production or back-office operations. To make a combination successful, you need to engineer the economies of scale carefully to target the potential source of joint value.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Cost Airlines Productivity 8

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. To best leverage worldwide creative talent, Reliance MediaWorks operates a global network of creative centers located in Burbank, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and across India. Cambridge, U.K. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is nothing if not determined in its quest to acquire Illumina, the San Diego-based leader in genetic-sequencing equipment. Terra Networks agreed to buy internet search-engine leader Lycos in 2000 for $12.5 In January, after Illumina's board rebuffed Roche's initial overtures, Roche made a $5.7

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. million industrial robots are in use or available in various industries including automotive, electronics, rubber and plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage. It was precise, but not necessarily elegant. By 2003, there were 800,000. Today, more than 1.3

Definition 8

Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The trick, and it is a difficult one, is to add just enough complexity so that people can do their work, but not so much that “they feel as if they are walking in muck” as Twitter’s SVP of engineering Chris Fry puts it. Build organizations where people feel “I own the place, and the place owns me.” Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

Case Study 10

Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2015

A study published by the National Venture Capital Association reveals that 40% of publicly traded venture-backed companies operating in high-tech manufacturing were founded by immigrants. The engineering team builds software with international users in mind. Even Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian immigrant.

Company 8

Company Globalization Software Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, some of these are low-paying, burger-flipper jobs.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

We see advances in materials, processes, and information technology that will make possible entirely new kinds of products and can radically alter how manufacturers operate. Pharmaceutical companies are mastering bio-engineering techniques that will help develop personalized medicines.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Some years ago I asked a group of 700 engineers from two large Silicon Valley companies to assess their performance relative to their peers. One group was a well-paid, well-educated group of client-facing engineers. The other group consisted of production employees operating in a factory setting. The results were startling.

Comparison 8

Comparison Incentives Outsourcing Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

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., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 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

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. Operations. Engineering. These may involve new areas for the company (e.g.,

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A Zurich-born manager with 10 years’ experience working in Germany and Switzerland, Xavier had just landed a few days ago in Monterrey, Mexico, at a small pharmaceutical company that was recently purchased by Xavier’s company, a major European pharmaceutical firm. How could he turn things around?

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Globalization Operations Motivation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending. The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Boston Scientific a few years back launched a secret project to reverse-engineer the technology of its single-source supplier of coronary stents. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another. It can work, but it's rare.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Wyeth, a pharmaceutical acquired by Pfizer in 2009, was the sole supplier of Premarin. At the same time, trade secrets are viewed as the stepchild of intellectual property because they operate, by definition, in secrecy, and we know much less about their role in market competition than we know about patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Merchandising Innovation Pharmaceuticals 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. workers in engineering, manufacturing, even aerospace. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. It never happened.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

This is the challenge for all kinds of disruptors, whether in the auto industry, pharmaceuticals, service industries, or healthcare. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Finally, industries in the upper-right quadrant — such as software, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment — face high uncertainty in both demand and technology. For example, who would have predicted that medical robots would perform surgeries?

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Places full of highly mobile and in-demand workers operate more democratically. Third, and even tricker to manage, effective leaders are given credit for their political skills, both as they rise through the organization and as they operate at the top. But having hired such talent, organizations face a challenge. How do they do that?

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8