NOVARTIS CEO: Big Pharma Has To Move Beyond Just 'Selling The Pill'
Swiss drugmaker Novartis recently lost patent protection on its best selling product, Diovan.They don't have anything coming soon which looks like it could replace it. It's a problem throughout the...
View Article99 Percent Of Innovation Methods Are Based On A Brain Model We Rejected A...
According to Columbia Professor Bill Duggan, the vast majority of the methods used to try and come up with innovative ideas are based on a flawed understanding of how how the brain works.In an...
View ArticleWhat It'll Take For The World's Most Powerful Industries To Dominate In 2013
High level economic predictions take up a lot of media coverage at the start of the New Year. They can ignore the fact that individual industries face very different pressures.Things may be looking up...
View ArticleZendesk CEO Shares What Every Startup Should Know About Winning With Customer...
Customer service is absolutely essential for businesses, especially small ones. If they have any hope of surviving, they have to get customers to come on board and stay. Great service is the key to...
View Article7 Steps To Becoming an Authority in Your Industry
Becoming an authority in your industry can be a great way to promote your business and help you better serve your clients. It takes a consistent dose of education and risk, but the rewards can be well...
View ArticleHospitals Hold One Of The World's Biggest Untapped Sources Of Innovation
It's a tough economic environment for hospitals. Bottom lines are being squeezed, and changes in health care laws and priorities mean that they're having to change everything, focusing more on quality...
View ArticleThe 12 Coolest Startup Offices We've Ever Seen
Here at Business Insider, we go on a lot of office tours.Only a handful have blown us away.From sprawling roof decks to skeeball, check out 15 spectacularly decorated startups.We've been to them all...
View Article3 Excuses You Should Never Use At Work
Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”Well, Ben must have spent some time in an office.Yes, we all live full, busy lives, and...
View ArticleDish Network's Fingerprint Scanners Email HR And Your Boss If You're Minutes...
Many executives have been known to cultivate an aura of intimidation. It's a management style that's gone out of vogue, but isn't unheard of.It's rare though that one person is alleged to play a...
View ArticleHow Tory Burch Became A Fashion Billionaire In Less Than A Decade
Less than a decade after she started a fashion brand in her kitchen, Tory Burch is officially a billionaire.Her eponymous fashion line, which includes high-end handbags and Reva ballet flats, is...
View ArticleWhy Japan Has A Massive 'Entrepreneurship Vacuum'
Empirical research has shown that "opportunity-driven" entrepreneurship is the wellspring of growth in the modern market economy. In Japan, the relative dearth of opportunity-driven entrepreneurship...
View ArticleDreamit Ventures Will Be Releasing 9 Startups Into The Wild At SXSW
Dreamit Ventures is a startup accelerator program like TechStars and Y Combinator. Adaptly, Parsely, SeatGeek and LevelUp are all Dreamit companies.Each year, Dreamit accepts a handful of startups into...
View ArticleHow Family Businesses Should Pick Their Next Leaders
Family-run businesses face a big problem: Who will run their enterprises in the future?Leadership succession is not a one-time exercise but a continuous strategic direction.Companies in the Gulf...
View Article24 Rules Of Seduction
We've already shown you bestselling author Robert Greene's 48 tips on becoming more powerful.The master of persuasion has another book titled, "The Art of Seduction" which offers 24 techniques to get...
View ArticleJOB OF THE WEEK: VP of E-Commerce, Forever 21
Check out the Business Insider Jobs section >>As part of our new partnership with CareerBuilder.com, each week we'll feature one of the awesome jobs advertised on the Business Insider jobs...
View Article3 Ways To Come Up With Big Business Ideas
The idea for Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom was born on a family vacation. Walt Disney was visiting Tivoli Gardens, one of Europe’s oldest amusement parks, when he realized he could create a bigger, better...
View ArticleWhy Great Bosses Are Essential, In One Chart
Everyone's had bosses they've either connected or clashed with. But the real world impact of good management can be lost in the sea of people and data at large companies, or is hard to see outside of...
View ArticleFive MIT Students Have Solved A Universally Annoying Problem
It's impossible to get every last drop out of a bottle, whether it contains ketchup, mustard or jelly.Until now.Five MIT students: Dave Smith, Rajeev Dhiman, Adam Paxson, Brian Solomon, and Chris Love,...
View Article14 Bad Habits That Get In The Way Of Successful Leadership
Success in life most often comes down to eliminating bad habits.Here are a few of them that plague business leaders:Stop paying so much attention to what your competition is doing. Just because they...
View ArticleWhy Most Men Brag About Their Salaries, But Most Women Keep Quiet
Twice a month, a panel of dads discusses a topic of the moment. For today's conversation, they look at the differences in how men and women talk about compensation. Here are parts 1-3.Part 1: Theodore...
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