First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 21, 2012

An entrepreneur and veteran of the computer industry, Frank Moss spent his career bringing innovative technologies to market. Ten years ago he set out to make a broader contribution to the world, leading him to cofound a cancer drug discovery company and then to the MIT Media Lab, where he served as director from 2006 [.].

Entrepreneur 80

Entrepreneur Media Technology Innovation 80

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. As a college student in this technological era, I’ve felt the constant burden of having to pursue a “practical” degree. Let's hear it from her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. My uncle pushes engineering.

CEO 70

CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

They are leading global airline, chemical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial companies, among others. As a college student in this technological era, I’ve felt the constant burden of having to pursue a “practical” degree. Let's hear it from her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. My uncle pushes engineering.

CEO 70

CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2020

60 per cent were ready to go even part-time if it did not affect their career prospects too much. It conducts clinical trials on behalf of its pharmaceutical clients and provides regulatory, consulting, and market access to expedite the drug approval process. It offers Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

Company 85

Company Insurance Travel Software 85

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans.

Agility 50

Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

For many women, returning to work after parental leave is a key career transition point. This phase involved a round of interviews with people at 28 organizations across a variety of sectors, including aviation, banking, pharmaceutical, professional services, and technology. What About Dads?

Career 15

Career Company Pharmaceuticals Examples 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Career opportunities for women in "the New India" are rapidly expanding, but family expectations and social mores remain rooted in tradition. Not surprisingly, the most stress is felt among women between 25 and 55 years of age, who are trying to balance demanding careers with obligations at home.

Stress 20

Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Finance 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

COO 15

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Technological innovation accounted for almost half of U.S. In today's climate of intense competition, we must find ways to develop " integrative thinking " — the thinking that leads to new business ideas, especially in science and technology. We must inspire students to find value in pursuing a career in science.

Education 16

Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). He emailed Christopher Tan, a marketer with an interest in mobile technologies and experience building applications, and within 36 hours, they had come up with a prototype. But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done.

Company 13

Company Pharmaceuticals Health Care Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Among McKinsey's biggest clients in the 1990s were pharmaceuticals and financial-services companies. Consultants by definition spend most of their careers as outsiders, guns hired from afar to help clients shoot at problems. Was it only ten years ago that the profits of the top 10 U.S. The desire to be an insider.

McKinsey 16

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. These challenges require extraordinary leaders. ” But this is changing.

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Health Care Biotechnology Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. It would be a shame if they did.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Early in my career, a lot of commentators were sure Japan was on its way to becoming number one. New technology has turned the U.S., Because of Kendall Square’s concentration of talent, and its infrastructure, Novartis, the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company, moved nearly its entire research center here from Switzerland.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

At a more micro-level, we saw a team at pharmaceutical company Roche recently experiment with a much simpler expense-claim processing system based around peer review rather than oversight, and again it was a useful way of getting rid of tedious and non-value-added activities.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Short-term Peer Review 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program.

Company 8

Company Innovation Competitive Advantage White Paper 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Former HR director with Pepsi Central Eastern Europe, and gained HR expertise at PLIVA Pharmaceutical Company (now part of Teva Group). Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. While at Arthur J.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 5, 2012

It is perfectly understandable that early in her career, Mary did not understand the business realities, especially coming from a different set of realities. The customers were almost all of the top twenty pharmaceutical companies, which reinforced her perception that the company was helping to revolutionize drug discovery. (See

Technology 38

Technology Bureaucracy Pharmaceuticals Loyalty 38

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. Tolerance of Failure. It is axiomatic that successful innovation requires tolerance of failure. Advertising agency Grey has a Heroic Failure award in similar vein.

Company 10

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. Making the leap to a new career curve is a bold idea that also needs to be sold, and the importance of mitigating risk for the key decisionmaker — the prospective employer — holds true. Innovation'

Innovation 15

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 15

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Writing in the Wall Street Journal in October 2019, Doctor Azra Raza laments the fact that little true progress has been made in cancer treatments in the three-plus decades of his career. As Scotti notes, this project “is still considered one of the boldest achievements in [the history of] engineering technology.”

Innovation 98

Innovation Long-term Short-term Follow-up 98