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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

Cardinal Health: The global pharmaceutical distributor and medical products supplier sent a memo to U.S. employees informing them that all of its salaried employees, office-based staff, sales team, and employees who need to travel for business will be required to get vaccinated by Oct. Pfizer: The pharmaceutical giant’s U.S.

Company 98
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How Covid Affected Finnish Small Businesses

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers highlight the particular impact on businesses in the travel and hospitality sectors, who have all suffered due to the lockdown measures. By contrast, firms operating in areas such as online retail, pharmaceuticals, and information and communications technology, have all thrived. Face-to-face interactions.

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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

It conducts clinical trials on behalf of its pharmaceutical clients and provides regulatory, consulting, and market access to expedite the drug approval process. It offers Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. BCD Travels. The organization has an in-house remote racker management training program.

Company 85
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The Technology Trends That Matter to Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Recently, information technology research and advisory company Gartner compiled a list of top 10 strategic technology trends. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. Computing everywhere.

Trends 8
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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Despite Dire Predictions, Salespeople Aren’t Going Away

Harvard Business Review

“Things were different once upon a time before the railroads turned farms into cities… The traveling [sales]man is a middleman and the evolution of business is gradually eliminating the middle man.” Buyers usually first became aware of new products when a traveling salesman showed up at the door.

B2B 8
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What Should an Apple Car Be?

Harvard Business Review

’ One could imagine an Apple car that is a Tesla-like product—one with comparable speed, self-driving technology, aesthetics, and features–but is so seamlessly integrated with the Apple ecosystem and requires a new sized iPhone, or some kind of blend of iPhone, iPad or MacBook. How about a man cave on wheels? Or a kitchen?