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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. And what can we learn from it? Commercial.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

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.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? This will require reporting on new metrics. Finally, begin to track the progress of your network initiative.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. For being a comparatively small firm, BTS has a very broad field of expertise: Strategy Execution. Business Acumen. Leadership Development. Salesforce Transformation. Innovation.

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business

We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). Unlike other studies in this vein, we didn’t examine leadership development, per se — we analyzed the impact of different management practices on business performance as a whole. .”