Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. In the early 1920s, as a result of a growing market for Idrolitina, Gazzoni decided to automate the packaging process.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 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. To be sure, many factors influence health outcomes and the investments the health care system makes are only one input. rawpixel/Getty Images.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His company is quite respected in the sustainability community both for its progressive social equity policies and for green technology that limits the environmental impacts of his company's manufacturing activities. So I asked: Do you foresee a time when you'd willingly provide access to your leading green technology to your competitors?

Co-Opetition 13

Co-Opetition Company Brandenburger Game Theory 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

” It heightened concerns over today’s tech giants and the influence they have. That influence comes in part from data. The velocity in acquiring and exploiting this personal data can help these companies obtain significant market power. He noted his agency’s “particular concerns in digital markets.”

Company 9

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A less aggressive mix (say 75:25) is typical in industries such as pharmaceuticals that want salespeople to focus on customer education, and for technical sales jobs that have a large problem-solving component. Within an industry or company, pay mix often varies across sales roles.

Motivation 8

Motivation Incentives Franchising Short-term 8

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. This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market. billion tender offer directly to shareholders.

Innovation 12

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. Cosmeceuticals , for example, is the new industry emerging from the convergence of the personal care/cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. Sure there are major differences in values and governance — and thus a true competition of ideology and influence.

Apparel 14

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Advances in genome-sequencing technologies and powerful analytics are increasingly being used to pinpoint errant genes and other molecular abnormalities that drive cancer’s growth. What can the field of precision oncology learn from this DTC approach? Know the patient. Where do they get their health information? Start small to go big.

Company 8

Company Health Care Storytelling Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Hiring policies influence morale, productivity and turnover, marketing efforts shape demand growth, and competitors fight back. Games will further reinforce this edge over books or seminars once VR (virtual reality) becomes fully market-ready. The game play included collaborative interactions like agreeing on M&A/JV efforts.

Seminar 8

Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Sure, the company was eventually both punished and sold (it’s now one of the fastest-growing pharmaceutical businesses in the U.S.). In it, he traces the intersection of science and marketing that''s made junk food so delicious, so profitable, and so very bad for you.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It was hardly what you’d call an “adequate sample size” for market research, but the results were nevertheless eye-opening for the maker of a pain-relief ointment: A single consumer posted an online photo showing how he placed foil over the ointment to prevent it from staining his pants. Social listening doesn’t presuppose anything.

Sample 8

Sample Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Originally gaining notoriety as the data technology underneath the cryptocurrency called bitcoin, today blockchain technology is expanding its reach far beyond the confines of currency and tackling issues involving transactional social trust throughout the world. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) Technological uncertainty results from unknowns regarding the technologies that might emerge or be combined to create a new solution.

Uncertainty 20

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 20