Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Business development. Instill discipline. Running the business.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. Being sharp means being succinct. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Additionally know what you have to trade.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Your healthcare executive resume will be read by not only scientific professionals in medical affairs, research and development, clinical operations, but your resume will also be reviewed by financial, operational, marketing and human resources leaders. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

As McKinsey put it in a recent report: “The hardest activities to automate with currently available technologies are those that involve managing and developing people (9 percent automation potential) or that apply expertise to decision making, planning, or creative work (18 percent).”

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But as companies get bigger, they have a harder and harder time staying close to their customers and maintaining the sharp, ground-level instincts of a younger company. Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both. Do you have a way of regularly identifying and celebrating them?

Company 11

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

One team member, a no-nonsense American with a Bain Capital pedigree, thinks the answer is obvious: North America Human Resources. This is what organizational development types call "action learning," and it has two essential ingredients. Suddenly, a snag. Where will this designated miracle worker report?

Team 8

Team Argyris Teamwork Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

But without input, your development will suffer, you may become isolated, and you're likely to miss out on hearing some great ideas. You need to develop relationships with people so they know they can tell you the truth without getting anyone in trouble," he says. No one wants to offend the boss, right?

360-Degree Feedback 17

360-Degree Feedback How To Construction Case Study 17

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Former President, Amherst College.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Unfortunately for the authors, one of the star companies in their star-struck book was Enron, whose top brass boasted about the ambitious, aggressive, sharp-elbowed individualists who populated its ranks. Lesson 2: If you want to keep great contributors, develop better managers.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Now Stefan was the head of the consultancy's South Asia and Middle East business, and Caroline was its global human resources director. credentials and a sharp business sense. There's no one in the whole industry who can develop and run a consulting business the way he does. Caroline continued, "The numbers look good.

Case Study 9

Case Study Consultative McKinsey Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

In many ways, the current state of court decisions begins in a familiar place: human resources departments. But it did foreshadow later legal developments, beginning in 1986. Programs, policies, and training alone do not stop sexual harassment and abuse. The Birth of Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policies.

Policies 8

Policies Human Resources Compliance Guidelines 8