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Changing Demographic Trends and Development – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1310

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Changing Demographic Trends and Development – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1310 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1310 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Juan Philip Ramirez Credit: Rahul Varge Preamble This blogpost takes some insights from a recent article published in DevelopmentAid. Link to the article at the end. The Demographic Shift: What Changing Population Trends Mean for International Development For most of modern history, population growth was treated as one of the defining challenges of development. More people meant greater demand for food, housing, education, employment, healthcare and infrastructure. Governments and development agencies therefore focused heavily on managing rapid population growth and expanding services for growing populations. That picture is changing. ...
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Five Important Shifts in Consumer Behavior – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1309

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Five Important Shifts in Consumer Behavior – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1309 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1309 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: bi ravencrow Credit: Polina Tankilevitch Credit: Vitaly Gariev Preamble This blogpost takes insights from a recent Boston Consulting Group article. Link to the article at the end. The Consumer Has Changed: Five Shifts That Will Reshape Growth For decades, companies have built growth strategies around relatively familiar assumptions: consumers want lower prices, households are built around families, brands influence purchasing decisions, advertising creates awareness, and people make buying decisions largely on their own. Those assumptions are becoming less reliable. Consumers are changing not simply what they buy, but how they live, wha...
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Reckitt’s Strategic Reset – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1308

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Reckitt’s Strategic Reset – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1308 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1308 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Preamble This blogpost takes insights from a recent McKinsey article. Link to the article at the end. Reckitt is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, United Kingdom. It manufactures health and hygiene products. Reckitt's brands include the antiseptic brand Dettol, the sore throat medicine Strepsils, the toilet cleaner Harpic, the hair removal brand Veet, the cold, flu, and cough relief brand Mucinex, the indigestion remedy Gaviscon, the pain relief medication Nurofen and other brands and products like: Durex, Lysol, Finish, and Vanish. When Incremental Change Is Not Enough: Lessons from Reckitt’s Strategic Reset There comes a ...
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Global Water Pollution Crisis – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1307

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Global Water Pollution Crisis – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1307 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1307 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Tom Fisk Credit: Vero Lova Preamble This blogpost takes insights from a recent DevelopmentAid Digest article. Link to the article at the end. Water Pollution: The Global Crisis We Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Water is often described as the most fundamental resource on Earth. We drink it, grow food with it, use it in industry, generate energy from it and depend on rivers, lakes, wetlands and oceans for the functioning of ecosystems. Yet the quality of this essential resource is deteriorating in many parts of the world. Water pollution is not simply an environmental problem. It is a public-health crisis, an economic challenge, a development issue a...
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How to Lead Better in the Age of Anxiety? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1306

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How to Lead in the Age of Anxiety? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1306 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1306 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Vitaly Gariev Preamble This blogpost takes insights from a recent INSEAD article. Link to the article at the end. Leading in an Age of Anxiety: Why the Best Leaders Learn to Manage Themselves First We live in an age of extraordinary possibility, and extraordinary anxiety. Technology is transforming industries at unprecedented speed. Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work. Social media constantly exposes us to conflict, crisis and alarming information. Economic uncertainty, geopolitical tensions and rapid social change make the future increasingly difficult to predict. For leaders, the challenge is even greater. They are expected...
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Discouraged? How to Stay Motivated? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1305

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Discouraged? How to Stay Motivated? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1305 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1305 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Cesar Lopéz Preamble I am a subscriber to Scott Young. Many of his articles are thought provoking. The core issue discussed in this article is something that anyone can face during long work life. My blogpost is based on the key insights from his article. Link to the article at the end. When You Feel Discouraged: How to Rebuild Motivation and Keep Moving Forward There is a popular belief that successful people are distinguished by their ability to keep going no matter what happens. We are told to be resilient, stay positive, never give up and keep pushing until we achieve our goals. It is an inspiring message, but it is incomplete. Sometimes p...
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New Drug Discovery - Putting Patients First – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1304

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New Drug Discovery – Putting Patients First – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1304 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1304 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Polina Tankilevitch Preamble This blogpost takes insights from a McKinsey article. Link at the end. The Future of Pharma Innovation: What Astellas Teaches Us About Putting Patients First Pharmaceutical innovation has never been more exciting, or more difficult. Science is advancing rapidly across targeted therapies, immuno-oncology, genetic regulation, cell and gene therapy, and new drug modalities. At the same time, the industry faces enormous pressure to translate scientific breakthroughs into medicines that genuinely improve patients' lives, while managing rising R&D costs, regulatory complexity, patent expiries and increasingly...
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