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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. As chief executive from 1972 to 1994, Richard Gelb (HBS, 1950) orchestrated Bristol-Myers’ acquisition of Squibb and transformed the firm from a personal care company to a diversified pharmaceutical giant. Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business

Barbara Kellerman from Harvard, Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford, and numerous other experts have pointed out that the development market is filled with fads — slick behavioral models and fun, engaging tools — that don’t really move the needle. But there’s little evidence that much of this works. Insight Center.

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Is M&A the Cure for a Failing Health Care System?

Harvard Business

Is free-market magic finally bringing Amazon-style convenience, quality, and efficiency to health care? Could this be it? Are old-guard institutions, like hospitals and nursing homes, on the verge of extinction? The answer, frustratingly, is that it depends. Kaiser has failed in several attempts to spread to new locations.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business

Lilly trains its alliance managers to look at risk as the precursor to conflict, as parties typically engage in conflict as a method of reducing or controlling alliance risk. Train key alliance personnel to listen and make space for disagreement and conflict. Focus your conflict-management resources where it matters most.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The attendees of the event will have a chance to explore the recent trends and changes in applying conversational AI within the European market. The conference will cover a range of topics – emerging technologies, diversity, soft skills development, inspiration for project managers, and more.

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How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library

Harvard Business

Several organizations for whom we had worked or had researched used a technique we call “innovation communities” to structure strategic conversations so that they’re both efficient and effective. Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b

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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

Harvard Business

The emergence of big data, as well as advancements in data science approaches and technology, is providing pharmaceutical companies with an opportunity to gain novel insights that can enhance and accelerate drug development.

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