The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 26, 2020

A third wave is now beginning to form around fake pharmaceutical treatments, which the researchers believe will worsen as vaccines begin to be released. We conducted this research with the goal that eventually it will lead to improved tools and policy changes so that social media can be used as a force for good.”

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One of the more interesting projects in this field is undertaken by pharmaceutical giant GSK, who offer their GSK Science in the Summer program to 2nd-6th graders to help engage them in STEM-related topics. The project focuses on exciting minority and vulnerable students, including migrants and homeless youngsters.

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Pharmaceuticals Education ROI Project 67

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2018

On the other hand the team vision will galvanize the team into action and pull it towards its goals. It should be specific, tangible, and then broken down into meaningful goals. A few years back, I coached a national pharmaceutical team with distinct geographies. This is why, fun, challenge and celebration are so important.

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Team Pharmaceuticals Project Learning-by-Doing 58

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program. Leading innovator in HR for over 25 years.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. Have you actually seen this done?”. The skepticism is warranted.

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Innovation P&L Short-term Company 12

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

With life expectancy typically increasing and medical innovations positively impacting people’s health, for the first time since records began there are more seniors than children under 5 years. You want the decisions you make to support a long-term strategy to achieve your goals, expand your business and accomplish success.

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Audience Niche Marketing How To Marketing Strategy 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. And what can we learn from it? Commercial.

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Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

In fact, by government edict, the goal is to direct policy, health care, and even citizens themselves toward longer, healthier, more enriching lives. Why the Pharmaceutical Industry Is Booming in Japan. Conditional early approval expanded to cover innovative medical devices in July 2017. Read More from the Government of Japan.

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Health Care Industry Pharmaceuticals Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In both instances, the life-cycle management innovation involves using disintermediation to change how the customer interacts with the product. Throughout its history, Pfizer's biggest product and the biggest-selling branded drug in pharmaceutical industry history, has delivered some confounding strategic lessons.

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Disintermediation Industry Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. When predefined treatment goals are attained, both parties contractually benefit. They’re also sharing risk. The new business model has yet to solidify, and the leaders have yet to emerge.

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Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

We then tested the model using quantitative data about the incidence of safety-related errors in the context of pharmaceutical drugs. We analyzed 146 pharmaceutical firms between 1997 and 2004 for a quantitative look at this pattern of learning and forgetting after safety-based errors.

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Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

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. The translation involves people and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. I''ll describe both, but first let''s look at what''s wrong with some of the traditional sources of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. You know those baby sea turtles that get eaten by birds and crabs on their way from the nest to the water?

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. Innovators developing new drugs, devices, and procedures should look beyond profits alone and incorporate the need to add value into their investments.

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Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

With those goals in mind, you can choose which modules from your standard presentation to include, and whether you need to develop bespoke material to augment it. For instance, one pharmaceutical company that booked me for a keynote last year wanted me to incorporate elements of a talk on innovation that I frequently give.

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Audience How To Pharmaceuticals Conference 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. The pharmaceutical industry also creates products with complex interactions and potentially dangerous side effects. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk.

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Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

But we would argue that credibility may also be signaled to important external stakeholders — future employees, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and so on. The course culminates in a team-based innovation project presented to hospital leadership. …and how training can make them even better ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. But they recognize that they — and the organization — need a process to help them reach their goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

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Company Agility Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer. ” Health care.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating. Design the service for the patient.

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Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

A big goal requires a “thick we” network — a community of people who feel responsible for collaborating toward a shared purpose that they see as superseding their individual needs. Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. Participants tend to belong for individualistic reasons.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Technological innovation accounted for almost half of U.S. economic growth over the past 50 years, but the country's standing as the world's indisputable innovation leader is now at risk. At Merck, as part of our commitment to scientific innovation, we are working to foster the next generation of scientific leaders.

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Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

maintaining alignment with the company’s corporate goals. Teams are hurt by unclear governance, by a lack of accountability, by goals that lack specificity, and by organizations’ failure to prioritize the success of cross-functional projects. Every project should have clearly established goals, resources, and deadlines.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

I'll be joined by five CEOs, among them George Halvorson , who heads the health care provider Kaiser Permanente, Vincent Forlenza who runs Becton Dickinson, the pharmaceutical company, and Tim Brown , the CEO of IDEO, the design and innovation firm.

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Meyer Goleman Emotional Intelligence Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A recent survey on easing racial tensions at work by the Center for Talent Innovation found that “The workplace is one of few settings where we commonly interact across racial and ethnic lines.” Today’s employees seek work not only to make a living but also to achieve meaningful social goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. Not rising costs. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The Institute for Applied Cancer Science at MD Anderson (IACS) is exploring revolutionary new cures and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is working to revive the US production capacity. Innovating the Innovation Process. Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Today, payers and providers are using a range of strategies to accomplish this goal, including patient-centered medical homes , value-based contracting , and accountable care organizations (ACOs). pharmaceuticals, physical therapy, skilled nursing facility care). Leading Health Care Innovation. We applaud this trend.

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Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

It's depressing to realize how few of the teams in our lives use their human capital and opportunities well, when it comes to sustaining performance, innovating, or adapting. Without it, they narrowly focus on specific measurable goals or task completion without context or meaning. For instance: 1.) Now to the world of business.

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Team Sports Pharmaceuticals PR 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Instead of supporting employees already undertaking their own self-improvement plans and encouraging others to start them, wellness has morphed in many directions that increasingly overlook or even conflict with that original goal. But human resources departments can reconfigure their offerings so they are embraced, not resented.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Rather than be paralyzed by fear about who has access to what, savvy leaders recognize that information can empower employees to move the business closer to customers, that decision-making can be accelerated when vital data is not held hostage (or lost) and that visible conversations can prevent wasted effort and even spark innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

He says he’s seeing a growing interest among leaders in meditation as a way to build leadership skills – and achieve business goals. They want to see how these approaches … are truly beneficial to existing priorities like retention, talent advancement, innovation.”

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