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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. World authority on branding and culture transformation.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products. Experimentation is vital.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

sense, it entails a potentially disastrous failure of the imagination, an inability to appreciate all the exigencies the client confronts in trying to actually get something done, much less changed, within his organization. Among McKinsey's biggest clients in the 1990s were pharmaceuticals and financial-services companies.

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Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?

Harvard Business Review

initiative — prohibitions against off-label marketing under the False Claims Act — swept through the pharmaceutical industry. Generally speaking, these multi-company issues have arisen from bad acts by individuals in the middle of the organization and do not appear to have been directed from the top of the corporation.

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The “Maximize Profits” Trap in Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

Imagine, for example, that you’re a pharmaceutical CEO deciding whether to recall a new drug. From a historical perspective, the idea that managers in organizations have a single, dominant duty — to achieve or maximize economic returns — is a striking development. How should you make this decision?

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