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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

By contrast, the IT and engineering sectors were far more accessible to people from working-class backgrounds. These CEOs had transitioned through the classes as a result of their educational performance and were highly present in sectors like technology, engineering, health, and education.

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The State Of University Spinouts In The UK

The Horizons Tracker

University spinouts represent a major source of innovation but a recent report into the sector by the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub and Beauhurst suggests all is not as healthy as it might be. The researchers have tracked over 50,000 high-growth businesses across the UK since 2011, with 1,628 of these identified as spinouts.

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A New Generation of Drug Therapies Requires New Business Strategies

Harvard Business Review

The shift to advanced therapeutic modalities (ATMs) promises to change the nature of competition in the pharmaceuticals industry.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. When does pharmaceutical pricing become price gouging?

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The Competitive Advantage to Creating a Data-Driven Culture

CEO Insider

No matter the industry, whether it is manufacturing, IT, pharmaceuticals, finance, or personal services, companies of all sizes are drowning in data. Excel spreadsheets get tossed between departments while an overview of financial, sales and HR data is muddy at best.

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How to use collaborative leadership to get the best out of your people

Chartered Management Institute

To explore how collaborative leadership works in practice, we talked to Emma Bould CMgr FCMI, who has spent her career in engineering leadership roles. The amount of leadership training you get in the military is huge ,” she says, “because when you’re placed in an operational role, you have to perform.”

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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

For example, a pharmaceutical company called me recently. I can’t make a bad doctor a good doctor, a bad scientist a good scientist, or a bad engineer a good engineer. It would be crazy for me to take these assignments! The HR person said, “We want you to coach Dr. X.” I said, “What’s his problem?” Neither am I!”