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Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Harvard Business

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. Commercial.

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How Digital Health Care Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes

Harvard Business

DPPs typically include in-person meetings of a small group of prediabetic adults who, with the guidance of a health coach, progress through a diet and lifestyle curriculum. The company worked collaboratively with the CDC and was one the first three digital DPP providers that the agency recognized for meeting its evidence-based standards.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

In a project for a pharmaceutical company, we were able to isolate the specific information sources that drove positive and negative sentiment toward the client’s brand. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries.

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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. paul Garbett for HBR.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. public corporations must file with the U.S.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

What were the KPI’s or metrics achieved to show that the project was a success? Following up with the people you meet is where the magic happens — and your “Hello” page makes following up easier. If you think that way, you’re operating with a scarcity mindset. Further Reading: Write post (Medium).