Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across An IndustryBased on her research of 800 biotechnology companies and 3,200 biotechnology executives, Harvard Business School professor Monica Higgins discovered that one firm–Baxter–was the breeding ground for today’s most successful biotechnology ventures. This phenomena of one organization spawning an industry has also been seen in the high-tech (Hewlett-Packard) and semiconductor industries (Fairchild). However, until now there has been no suitable explanation of why and how these organizations were able to create the next generation of industry leaders. Career Imprints shows why Baxter was so successful in spawning senior executives and offers an understanding of what it takes for an organization to produce leaders that will dominate an industry for years to come. In this important book, Higgins shows that an organization’s "career imprint"3⁄4the result of company systems, structure, strategy, and culture3⁄4that employees take with them throughout their careers is the key to creating great leaders. By understanding these factors, staff, human resource executives, and CEOs can analyze their own organization’s career imprint and develop leaders. |
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Amgen analyses aspects of Baxter's Baxter alumni Baxter International Baxter managers Baxter's career imprint behavior Bill Graham Biogen biotech companies biotech firms biotech industry biotechnology biotechnology companies biotechnology firms biotechnology industry capabilities career experiences career history career imprinting process career paths career transitions Chapter cognition confidence context cultivated decentralized design choices developmental division early career employees entrepreneurial career imprint example factors filial imprinting focus Gabe Schmergel Gantz Genentech Genzyme Genzyme's guys Harvard Business School healthcare firms hired important individuals International interviews intraorganizational investors Jim Tobin Johnson & Johnson leaders left Baxter management positions manufacturing Merck organization organizational career imprints organizational culture organizational structure particular percent perspective pharmaceutical prior recruiting role scientific scientists senior executive senior management social reinforcement spawning story strategy stretch opportunities strong career imprint suggests Ted Greene Termeer tion tional top management Vincent wave
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