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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 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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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business

How talent management is changing. We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). So they’re looking for ways to cultivate those competencies and, in the process, feeding the fad-driven leadership development market.

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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. One client of Change Logic’s has built a dashboard for identifying recruitment and attrition in must-win talent populations.

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The Case Against Pay Transparency

Harvard Business

Pay transparency thrives in organizations that abandon pay for performance; it struggles in environments where rewards are linked to subjective metrics. For years, large pharmaceutical firms purchased small biotech firms with promises to keep their “entrepreneurial rewards” intact. What do effective organizations do?

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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. Lastly, this group may be more attuned to individual interests (including performance metrics and compensation incentives) rather than the collective and longer-term needs of the firm. paul Garbett for HBR.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

Career progression is linear, with a focus on developing young talent. Its mature processes and dense infrastructure help ensure that talent is recognized quickly. However, the skill-building opportunities are widely praised, particularly for those with a deep interest in biotech and pharmaceuticals. women and 49.6%