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Compassionate Leadership
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Compassionate Leadership

by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, Marissa Afton, Moses Mohan
January 2022
Beginner
224 pages
4h 53m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Great Power Comes with Great Responsibility

In 2009, multinational healthcare company Roche acquired the California-based biotech company Genentech. During years of integrating the companies, Roche decided to close its US headquarters based in Nutley, New Jersey. This was a major decision. It wasn’t just its US headquarters, it was a historic site, having developed many of Roche’s most iconic pharmaceutical products. But more important, the decision impacted thousands of people who would be laid off, moved to other positions, or asked to move to other locations. These were thousands of lives—thousands of families—that were being permanently changed, and even uprooted.

Severin Schwan, CEO of Roche Group, understood the magnitude of this decision. ...

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ISBN: 9781647820749