Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. Lower costs, more true innovation.

Business Model 15

Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. Continuing Talent Development. Connecting to the Strategic Vision.

Project 19

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. Continuing Talent Development. Connecting to the Strategic Vision.

Project 18

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. But as Steve Blank, Henry Chesbrough, and others have pointed out , that advantage is offset by the daunting fact that corporate innovators have to fight a war on two fronts.

Innovation 15

Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2015

When one of us (Walker) helped developed the idea that became Priceline.com, the challenge was to solve a decades-long problem: how could airplanes and hotels fill their last, otherwise empty and perishable rooms and seats while holding the line on the price and profitability of most bookings?

Innovation 8

Innovation Licensing Directory Document 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. These standards were developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy, which oversees teaching, training, coaching, and supporting Mayo’s 60,000 staff to improve patient outcomes, safety, and service.

Quality 8

Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. Rinse and repeat, over and over.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

By that I mean that pharma companies should develop innovative treatments for pervasive unmet medical needs; avoid corruption, collusion, and other unethical marketing practices; and make sure that their products reach as many patients around the world as possible. Mitigate the risk of unethical conduct.

Reputation 8

Reputation Pharmaceuticals Price Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Stress tests are a specific form of simulation developed by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to allow them to figure out how badly a given financial institution’s portfolio would hold up if there was a broad sell-off across a bunch of asset classes, or a specific kind of shock like what we suffered in 2008.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8