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Christopher Bogan

Christopher Bogan

Healthcare Management
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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Mr. Bogan received his MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School and his bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Amherst College. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Mr. Bogan's work has focused on organizational excellence, blockbuster product launches, marketing excellence, sales force effectiveness, clinical operations and best practice improvement strategies. He has written about numerous aspects of performance excellence and continuous improvement. In recent years, he has concentrated on ways that companies can use best practice insights to create economic value, accelerate revenue and profit growth, and drive rapid performance improvement. He is co-author of the widely acclaimed books, Benchmarking For Best Practices: Winning Through Innovative Adaptation, published by McGraw-Hill, and The Baldrige: What It Is, How It's Won, and How To Use It To Improve Quality In Your Company.

Mr. Bogan has consulted on performance improvement and best practice competitiveness issues for a wide range of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, including Pfizer, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Genentech, J&J, Amylin, Sanofi-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Amgen, Novartis, Roche, Baxter Healthcare, Bayer, 3M Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Laboratories, Astellas, LifeScan, Guidant, Janssen Pharmaceutica and others.

Mr. Bogan led the consulting teams that assisted both Federal Express and GTE Directories (now Verizon) in winning the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He has also advised many leading corporations outside the healthcare sector, including industry leaders such as Microsoft, American Express, AT&T, General Motors, BellSouth, Chevron, Exxon, Xerox, Verizon, Marriott, Merrill Lynch, Siemens, KPMG, the New York Times Company, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., TIAACREF, Nortel Networks, Pitney Bowes, Bank of America, Wachovia and many others.

A guest lecturer at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Kenan Flagler Business School, Mr. Bogan has spoken widely before business audiences in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is an advisor to various management magazines on best practice and management issues. He currently serves on the UNC Academic Leadership Institute’s National Advisory Board. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Ontogeny, Inc., a stem cell and functional genomics company now named Curis, Inc.
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