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

Harvard Business

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. As chief executive, Dolan followed the agency-theoretic prescription that was taught in business schools in the late 1970s, refocusing his company’s business almost exclusively on pharmaceuticals.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business

Equally troublesome, almost all policies focus exclusively on payments and finances but ignore the powerful influence of careerism and other non-financial motives that may compromise objectivity far more than financial incentives. For academics, publishing and obtaining grants are key to promotion and career advancement.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for. When I started out in the program, I quickly realized I was never cut out for finance or accounting. This left me with few options. Be careful here.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the firm formed its technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software. FTI Consulting has 5 areas of expertise, but excels in Forensic & Litigation Consulting and Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. FTI University.

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Corporate Learning Programs Need to Consider Context, Not Just Skills

Harvard Business

In one pharmaceutical R&D company, we identified three critical populations that needed to change to enable the execution of the organization’s strategy. Every organization has functions that wield a disproportionate amount of power — the typical suspects are finance, procurement, and audit. Insight center.

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

Epicflow

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The participants will learn how healthcare providers overcome resource constraints and deliver new developments.