Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” This idea that disagreement and conflict between groups can be productive is not new. Oysters and alliances have something in common: a little irritation can produce a thing of beauty.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Regeneratives are pharmaceutical cell therapy products that replace or restore cells and tissues lost to disease or aging. “The Japanese want to be the regenerative medicine center of the world,” said Colin Lee Novick, managing director of the CJ Partners biotech consulting firm in Tokyo.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2017

This is the challenge for all kinds of disruptors, whether in the auto industry, pharmaceuticals, service industries, or healthcare. The fact is, going it alone, we believe, is simply not the way to go at all. Collaboration is the essential new secret sauce for startups and industry leaders alike.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Employees are more likely to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. Productivity, wages, and intrinsic motivations. Contemporary Management Research, 11 (4), 327-349.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

By 1969 , they had proven themselves and were held as the gold standard in pharmaceutical market research in Europe and Asia. Disease area, product landscapes, competitive assessments. Tender strategies and management. Key account management strategies. Life-cycle management strategy. Decision analysis.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The business model of research-based pharmaceutical companies is under significant pressure. The estimated return on these (fewer) products has itself declined substantially since 2010, from 10.1% However, it also reflects stronger pressures to lower medicine costs in traditional pharmaceutical markets.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

The same basic point applies to new managers joining an organization. New Managers: Almost all New Managers suffer from ‘joining anxiety’ and want to do things quickly. Within the pharmaceutical industry, 18 years in the same company was deemed negative (‘narrow experience’) rather than positive (company loyalty).

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BCG

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In all industries, poorly managed MRO processes can mean unnecessarily high costs, low plant and worker productivity, poor product quality, and elevated inventory-holding costs. A pharmaceutical manufacturer reduced the idle time associated with breakdowns through more aggressive spare-part inventory management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

For 78-year-old Tony, 3,4 DAP — which can be obtained at low cost from compounding pharmacies or for free through a compassionate-use program supported by a small privately held company, Jacobus Pharmaceuticals — is a lifesaver. Pharmaceutical companies traditionally invest heavily in research and development.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis became evident in South Africa in mid-March, the South African government put strict lockdown measures in place, including school closures and store lockdowns which were accompanied by reducing the output of production facilities. Conclusion.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2013

For an in-depth look at competitive response in the pharmaceutical industry, take a look at “ Competitive Response to Radical Product Innovations ”, an article in the May 2008 Journal of Marketing. Case scenario is a derivation from a practice case provided by The Boston Consulting Group.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. Enjoy the reading!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

I help the University of Utah hospital system manage its drug budgets and medication use policies, and in 2015 I got sticker shock. The 1984 Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act gave pharmaceutical companies exclusive protections for innovating a new drug. How generics are supposed to work.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2023

You’re not alone in seeing your team’s productivity tank. For example, a director in a pharmaceutical company asks one of his team members to manage a contract manufacturing organization (CMO). The director expected clear communication and regular updates as part of the CMO management. Unhealthy conflict happens.

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Claris Consulting

JUNE 3, 2019

We are often quick to shift the blame of our lack of success to bad leaders, inferior culture, crazy customers, weak markets, defective products, or the competition. You see, the job they applied for was in pharmaceutical sales. The pharmaceutical company rejected a smart and talented person for how they treated the receptionist.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2023

You’re not alone in seeing your team’s productivity tank. For example, a director in a pharmaceutical company asks one of his team members to manage a contract manufacturing organization (CMO). The director expected clear communication and regular updates as part of the CMO management. Unhealthy conflict happens.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 31, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. What cost control levers are available to reign in pharmaceutical / prescription drug costs? Productivity. (6). Management Consulting. Consultant Ninja.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

Pharmaceuticals and medical equipments do not fall under international sanctions but the country is facing shortages of drugs for the treatment of 30 illnesses including cancer, heart and breathing problems, thalassemia and multiple sclerosis (MS) because Iran is not allowed to use the international payment systems.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2017

Few issues are more foundational to driving improvements in human health than creating productive, progressive relationships between clinical medicine and the biopharmaceutical industry. During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its approval of nusinersen (sold as “Spinraza”), an effective SMA treatment licensed to Biogen by Ionis Pharmaceuticals. Nusinersen is an antisense oligonucleotide, a brief DNA sequence that increases SMN protein production.

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Whilst the driver for this M&A in the past has been access to minerals, real estate and perhaps some brand based purchases, the focus over the last 18 months has been financial services, manufacturing, technology, and pharmaceuticals. Will they make you reconsider your approach to managing Asian stakeholders?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In 2005, they acquired Strategic Management Group, Inc; a collection of investment companies with holdings in healthcare and biotech as well as other areas. In 2006, they acquired The Real Learning Company, which specializes in providing models, tools and programs for mapping, developing and managing performance for individuals and teams.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 18, 2014

Contrast that with the three lowest usages of pharmaceuticals, food, and plastics. It''s obvious robots increase productivity. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. How long will that be? I side with the editor. Why Robots?

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

If you’re an engineer, designer, software architect, into strategic design, or just in general thrilled with the combination of IT consulting and Management consulting, BCG is after you! Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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freshminds

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Consultants often offer advice on how to cut costs and therefore drive profits up as well as analyse sales and stocks to work out the most efficient ways of selling products. Price management is majorly important to gain profit - Harvard Business School explains why. So what does the consultant need to know?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Once I graduated with my Bachelor’s, I was a financial analyst by day and managed a bar a few nights per week. As luck would have it, I was able to take an ownership role at the bar I was managing. In this job I managed investigator initiated clinical trials, scientific messaging and key opinion leader development.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Consider the following scenario: A manager wants to purchase some computer software for her business. The manager peruses that company’s website and requests more information by entering data about her needs through a webform. The mounting number of inconsistencies and redundancies confuse and frustrate the manager.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

There is an abundance of high-quality comparative effectiveness data for pharmaceuticals, largely because of the drug approval process, but there’s less data on the value of other expensive investments into health, such as doctor visits and hospitalizations. (For

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

To be the change that many desire, these new mergers and acquisitions, and the others that will likely follow, must produce a higher-quality product for consumers (and satisfy physicians and other health professionals) at an affordable price. It depends above all on the results.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The team tasked with overseeing the effort designed an aggressive implementation plan that tied targets to manager compensation. The successful but challenging experience of a large pharmaceutical company illustrates the tension between top-down and decentralized change efforts. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

After all, there’s a subtle difference in how these two disciplines train people to understand and manage risks: Legal training focuses on the downside of particular actions, while business training may emphasize the upsides for shareholder value from risk taking. First, we looked at the matching between firm types and CEOs.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

Each of these leaders hold advanced degrees in economics, engineering, finance, management from top universities around the world. Product liability. Risk management. In healthcare, the firm focuses on the enormous and fast-growing sectors of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology. Commercial damages.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

That is good news for managers and investors. If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. Among non-financial corporations, most of the effect is accounted for by just five industries: pharmaceuticals/chemicals, petroleum refining, transportation equipment/defense, utilities, and communications.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

2 As questions on how to rein in increasing healthcare costs continue to mount, and politicians focus on passing legislation and targeting the pharmaceutical industry, a possible solution may be wearable health devices. billion by 2020. These devices can also be used to address chronic conditions such as heart disease, asthma, and diabetes.

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