Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis became evident in South Africa in mid-March, the South African government put strict lockdown measures in place, including school closures and store lockdowns which were accompanied by reducing the output of production facilities. Unfortunately, households are not the only ones feeling the brunt of NPI’s. Conclusion.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Businesses need leaders able to take action amid economic uncertainty and operate effectively in a digital workplace with a diverse workforce. Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Productivity, wages, and intrinsic motivations. Journal of Leadership Studies , 7(3), 18-40.

Leadership 66

Leadership Journal Pharmaceuticals Study 66

BCG

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) is a critical area. In all industries, poorly managed MRO processes can mean unnecessarily high costs, low plant and worker productivity, poor product quality, and elevated inventory-holding costs. MRO spending, which includes expenditures for services and spare parts, ranges from 0.5%

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. The results were fascinating.

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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. And what can we learn from it? Commercial.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

That can benefit consumers through lower prices, more innovation, and better products. This is especially true in pharmaceutical markets where new and affordable drugs can improve and even save the lives of many people. And so pharmaceutical firms appear to be benefitting from regulators’ incomplete decision process.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

Pharmaceuticals and medical equipments do not fall under international sanctions but the country is facing shortages of drugs for the treatment of 30 illnesses including cancer, heart and breathing problems, thalassemia and multiple sclerosis (MS) because Iran is not allowed to use the international payment systems.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Operating margins for firms publicly listed in the US show a substantial and sustained rise. If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. In a new research paper , I tease apart the factors associated with the growth in corporate valuations relative to assets ( Tobin’s Q ) and the growth in operating margins.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain. But these effects were limited.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2018

Many leading American digital firms, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Uber, have successfully expanded internationally by introducing their products, services, and platforms in other countries. failure to fully embed operations in China. Uber sold its operation to Didi Chuxing. Paper Boat Creative/Getty Images.

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Case Interview Intellectual Property Interviews Operations 41

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. On the business side, the escalation process has provided improved visibility into operations.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

health care system, ranging from expensive imaging for benign medical conditions to routine pre-operative testing before low-risk surgeries like cataract surgery. Mortgages exist to spread the costs of a home or a car out over a longer period of time, thereby allowing people to buy a product that they otherwise could not afford.

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

McKinsey’s Bay Area operation consists of two offices: San Francisco and Silicon Valley. However, e mployees at these two offices rave about the energy in the workplace, and Accenture has done a good job of building a culture of mentorship in its Bay Area operation. Deloitte Consulting , 101 Market St.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. at the forefront.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. The facility is more than twice as productive as its sister plants in GE Aviation. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. Productivity can help; but it is not enough to achieve superstardom. The link between superstar firms, sectors, and cities is complex.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Nowadays, when a multitude of businesses are confronted with the leap from “dumb” products to creating smart, connected ones , and cities and regions are trying to make the leap from manufacturing to services, relying too heavily on past successes will only lock those clusters in the past.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. What happens, for example, if the value of a product’s underlying intellectual property overtakes its production value?

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. foresee the necessity for change soon enough or. Autopsy #1 – Borders. Autopsy #2 – Hummer.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Household Products. Fortune 500 and over 30 of the Global Fortune 100 among its clientele. BTS GROUP KEY STATS. BTS Group Website: www.bts.com.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Most of my career has been managing teams of scientists, financial and risk analysts, and contracting specialists who work side by side with DoD personnel in their mission of medical product development for our service members. When was the ah-hah moment – when you realized what a great gig government consulting is?

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Interviews Consulting Government Case Interview 100

MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2016

But gains in financial operations? Bio-engineering critical to pharmaceuticals, plastics and polymers, biofuels. That may require people to change the batteries, but it will also eliminate gas delivery and gas production jobs. I don't accept that chart, at least for the implied reasons.

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Industry Biotechnology Transportation Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

We focused on nine common types of corporate litigation: antitrust, employment civil rights, contract, environmental, intellectual property, labor, personal injury, product liability, and securities. Second, these actions enhance value only when firms operate in an environment with high litigation risk or high compliance requirements.

Pharmaceuticals 29

Pharmaceuticals Intellectual Property Training Training 29

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The conference’s agenda involves keynotes, presentations, case studies, and interviews with leading pharma experts dealing with project portfolio management. The Agile Software Development track will be interesting for Scrum masters, Agile coaches, team leaders, project and product managers, and everyone involved in product delivery.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

Product liability. In healthcare, the firm focuses on the enormous and fast-growing sectors of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology. Practice Areas. Antitrust/competition. Commercial damages. Environmental litigation Regulation. Forensic economics. Intellectual property. International arbitration. International trade.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Unlike some pharmaceuticals, data-opolies do not charge consumers exorbitant prices.

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Data Company Advertising Engineering 40

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Talent McKinsey Apparel Sales 29

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. Great need doesn’t necessarily equal great demand.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. paul Garbett for HBR.

Leadership 38

Leadership Pharmaceuticals Groups Company 38

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

The country’s urbanized and large middle class has maintained a strong preference for foreign-made products despite restrictions due to U.S. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.). sanctions and a fragile economy. For non-U.S.-based

Tourism 28

Tourism Banking Hotels Financial 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication.

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Culture Company Enterprise Leadership 53

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. There is a wide chasm that separates an initial discovery and a viable product idea. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” Killing Ideas Faster.

Government 28

Government Research Journal Biotechnology 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function. We love it!

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