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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. The translation involves people and processes.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. Heat degrades the substrate of innovation, while light catalyzes it.” Lilly’s research shows these same effects can happen between members of alliance innovation teams.

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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella

Harvard Business Review

And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle. Great at mid-level, the managers were not game-ready for the next level. Or consider managed-health care provider Humana’s decision in 2013 to recruit an outsider as its next chief executive.

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