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Strategy+Business
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
And although the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries know this is the way forward, they face some significant hurdles Precision medicine combines business opportunities with clinical health benefits.
Harvard Business
MARCH 11, 2018
That rule of life is no secret to pharmaceutical companies across the globe. Japan remains the world’s second-biggest pharmaceuticals market, behind only the United States and China. The biggest change for pharma in Japan was the 2014 revision of the nation’s keystone pharmaceuticals law, renamed the PMD Act—for pharmaceutical and medical devices. Older people need more medicine.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Race Pharmaceuticals Digital ArticleHow scientific institutions can address systemic racism.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 18, 2020
Leadership & Managing people Pharmaceuticals Healthcare Digital ArticleThree strategies to stay laser focused on the path to a cure.
Harvard Business
MARCH 6, 2020
Strategy Research & development Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Technology Digital ArticleA study of nearly 100 organizations.
Harvard Business
JUNE 30, 2020
Technology Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Digital ArticleIt offers enormous benefits — but can’t replace in-person visits.
Harvard Business
JUNE 12, 2020
Technology Analytics Healthcare Technology Pharmaceuticals Government Digital ArticleWe need to shift from reactive to preventative care.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Technology Analytics Regulation Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Technology Digital ArticleA few key obstacles and how to overcome them.
Harvard Business
MAY 2, 2019
Research & development Technology Pharmaceuticals Healthcare Technology Digital ArticleIt will help patients and bring new treatments to market faster.
Tom Spencer
JULY 14, 2018
1 Pharmaceutical companies are unique in their capacity, due to little regulation and oversight, to raise prices. Because of the ability of health insurance companies and benefit executives at leading pharmaceutical companies to negotiate discounts and benefit packages, many in the industry argue that list prices on prescription drugs aren’t actually a reliable indicator of what Americans pay. In order to limit competition, pharmaceutical companies rely heavily on patent laws.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Large pharmaceutical companies are nowhere near as important to real drug innovation as they purport to be. Government policy and regulation Innovation Digital Article
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Regeneratives are pharmaceutical cell therapy products that replace or restore cells and tissues lost to disease or aging. “To be able to do that, they need to entice companies to come to Japan, and they need to entice their own pharmaceutical companies to license in and obtain the best.” It includes a designation system that promotes R&D in Japan aimed at early practical application for innovative pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and regenerative medicines.
Harvard Business
JULY 2, 2019
A study of pharmaceutical firms finds that it leads to valuable collaborations. Research & development Joint ventures Competition Digital Article
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
The emergence of big data, as well as advancements in data science approaches and technology, is providing pharmaceutical companies with an opportunity to gain novel insights that can enhance and accelerate drug development. The pharmaceuticals industry has seen an explosion in the amount of available data beyond that collected from traditional, tightly controlled clinical trial environments. Analytics Data Research & development Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Digital Article
David A Fields
AUGUST 24, 2016
There were about fifteen of us—three from my team and a dozen client personnel—in a conference room at the headquarters of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. The meeting was long. Lively, but grueling. It took an investment of time and even a bit of cash to pull together. (I I brought two, contract consultants in to prep and attend the meeting.)
Harvard Business
JUNE 9, 2017
In some states, accepting a cup of coffee from a pharmaceutical company must be reported, so “education” over lavish meals or in resort settings has largely receded. Guided by a refreshed ethical framework, pharmaceutical companies, in partnership with researchers and clinicians, can help accelerate the spread of knowledge of new clinical science, which now is notoriously slow. Ethics Research & development Government Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Digital Article
Harvard Business
AUGUST 3, 2016
This is especially true in pharmaceutical markets where new and affordable drugs can improve and even save the lives of many people. What makes our study unique is that we compared firms’ innovation activities not only before and after acquisitions, but we also compared those merging companies to firms in similar pharmaceutical markets without merger activities. And so pharmaceutical firms appear to be benefitting from regulators’ incomplete decision process.
Harvard Business
JUNE 13, 2016
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. One place to start might be a fresh look at the incentive compensation structure in the pharmaceutical industry. Sales Marketing Pharmaceuticals Digital Article
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
Innovation Business models Entrepreneurship Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Technology Digital ArticleTEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. When the FDA issued its first approval for a gene therapy for an inherited disease nearly a year ago—a cure for a type of blindness—it was heralded as breakthrough, a moment decades in the making.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Organizational culture Gender Policy Corporate governance Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Digital ArticleCarmen Martínez Torrón/Getty Images. Many factors make an organization prone to sexual harassment: a hierarchical structure, a male-dominated environment, and a climate that tolerates transgressions — particularly when they are committed by those with power. Medicine has all three of these elements.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 12, 2017
Organizations collecting patient data — including academic medical centers, foundations that sponsor cancer research, and pharmaceutical companies — must first identify the needs, pains, hopes, expectations, and behaviors of each person living with cancer. Marketing Research & development Social platforms Non-profit Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Digital Article
Harvard Business
JUNE 21, 2017
Shared value Research & development Collaboration Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Digital ArticleIt is well understood that achieving the full potential of precision medicine for all cancer patients depends on the sharing of patients’ genomic and molecular data and clinical information.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Now he's a keynote speaker and consultant working with the most senior levels in oil & gas, construction, mining, pharmaceuticals, banking, television, film, media, manufacturing and services.
Strategy+Business
MAY 11, 2014
Looking toward the future, pharmaceutical companies and other stakeholders will adopt existing technologies and develop new ones, creating a more connected digital healthcare ecosystem Doctors and patients are starting to use digital tools to manage healthcare more efficiently.
BCG
AUGUST 23, 2016
To capture the immense opportunities in emerging markets, pharmaceutical companies require highly targeted strategies. By 2020, emerging markets will account for more than 30% of pharmaceutical sales growth worldwide. Southeast Asia alone is expected to generate $40 billion in pharmaceutical sales by 2020. Article Tuesday, August 23, 2016.
BCG
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Focus Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Big shifts are underway in China’s pharmaceutical market. They will shape the marketplace for more than 90% of drug sales for the next decade for multi-national corporations and domestic players. While the long-term direction is becoming clear, the transition period over the next three to five years will be particularly challenging.
Consultants' Consultant
MAY 9, 2016
Felicity is an internal consultant for a pharmaceutical company. Consultants Consultant: “Don’t call my wife Big Nose!” Monty Python, Life of Brian How many times today have you had to say no? Or how many times SHOULD you have said no (but didn’t). At the beginning of every financial year, she is charged with making sure every […]. The post Don’t call me Big Nose appeared first on Consultants' Consultant. Consulting Well Training programs
Gina Abudi PM
APRIL 5, 2017
For the last three years, one of Abudi Consulting Group’s clients, a global pharmaceutical organization, has been working with us to provide training for their employees at all levels in how to use project management best practices to accomplish work. A Client Story.
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
The pharmaceuticals industry is facing a radical transformation in the way it manufactures medicine. Companies that want to succeed in the future need to move from the current pharma manufacturing paradigm to one that includes new technologies such as continuous manufacturing and 3D printing
Harvard Business
MAY 15, 2019
Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss whether pharmaceutical players like the Sackler family members should be held accountable for the current opioid crisis. They then debate the growing reliance on artificial intelligence bots by human resource departments in the job screening process. Social responsibility Economics & Society Technology Audio
MishTalk
JUNE 27, 2017
Pharmaceutical company Merck, Danish shipper Maersk, advertising group WPP Group, Ukrainian banks, and Russian oil company Rosneft all report significant intrusions on their computer systems. Another version of the “WannaCry” ransomware virus has gone viral, this one dubbed “Petya” by some and “GoldenEye” by others. Alternatively, some security experts say it is an entirely new virus.
Clarity Consultants
JANUARY 25, 2017
Our story begins in 2013, when a major global pharmaceutical firm launched a technology transfer project from one of its US factories to a new factory being constructed in Europe. For years the US factory had been the sole producer of the company’s successful drug to combat a persistent blood disease that, at best was a lifelong nuisance and, at worst was potentially fatal.
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. Ionis Pharmaceutical has been especially successful in creating a pipeline of these drugs, such as Nusinersen, a promising therapy for spinal muscular atrophy.
Gina Abudi
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
One project manager, who works for a pharmaceutical company, is working on a major project that crosses a number of divisions within the organization. I have seen too many project managers who don’t understand their stakeholders – and, specifically, the influence stakeholders may have on the project. I have been working with him from the [.]. The post Do You Know Who Has Influence on Your Projects? appeared first on Gina Abudi.
BCG
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
A pharmaceutical manufacturer reduced the idle time associated with breakdowns through more aggressive spare-part inventory management. Focus Wednesday, November 23, 2016. To ensure their competitiveness in the rapidly changing global marketplace, manufacturers in all regions are seeking ways to radically reduce their costs. Maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) is a critical area. MRO spending, which includes expenditures for services and spare parts, ranges from 0.5% to 4.5%
Tom Spencer
JULY 29, 2022
” The last few years of COVID-19 was a period that saw great opportunity for businesses in certain sectors including delivery, teleconferencing, remote learning, and pharmaceuticals. Life is not all blue skies.
Harvard Business
APRIL 6, 2017
The 1984 Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act gave pharmaceutical companies exclusive protections for innovating a new drug. ” By selling a drug they’re already making under a different name, pharmaceutical firms are effectively extending their monopoly for another six months. Another way pharmaceutical firms are thwarting generics is by restricting access to samples for testing. Regulation Branding Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Digital Article
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 3, 2021
And so the pharmaceuticals, the software, the fabrics, the call centers, the chips—it becomes ever more difficult to truly understand how to source and produce the components that world-based products demand. Feet on the street.
BCG
JUNE 28, 2016
The pharmaceutical industry is coping with regulatory pressure to reign in drug prices and dealing with the expiration of profitable patents. Video Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Brent Saunders, the CEO and president of Allergan, frequently talks about “growth pharma” and the need to be “bold.” Outside of emerging markets, those are strong turns of phrase for a man in his position.
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