N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2023
By partnering with executive search firms, organizations operating in the life sciences industry tap into a vast network of experienced professionals with the necessary expertise to excel in these demanding roles and professionals with deep experience identifying and assessing that talent.
Marshall Goldsmith
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm. Future leaders will work with their managers in a team approach that combines the leader’s knowledge of unit operations with the manager’s understanding of larger needs. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 1, 2014
I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. To save the 20-year-old company, I had to get it operating like a start-up. In the process, I came up with six rules that could also help others change their cultures.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 19, 2016
Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. Are there operations you would shed?
Strategy Driven
MARCH 18, 2011
These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Wages in these clustered industries (like pharmaceuticals or business services) are dramatically higher than in dispersed industries (like primary medical care or consumer services). The former are doing great — they aren't being outsourced or downsized or laid off. The latter are being squeezed in every way.
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