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Moderna CFO Exits A Day After Taking Charge With His Annual Pay

HR Digest

The biotechnology company announced Gomez’s appointment as the new Moderna CFO on April 11. The internal probe is with regards to whether or not the incentives that were meant to be used to promote the dental supplier’s products were properly accounted for. Despite the hasty departure, Gomez will receive his pay for the entire year.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. There is a wide chasm that separates an initial discovery and a viable product idea.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. This media powerhouse offers creative and production services as well as cutting-edge post-production services to such films as Avatar and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Reliance MediaWorks.

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It's Manufacturing's Turn for Special Treatment

Harvard Business Review

A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity gains likely to continue (a good thing), it is hard to imagine how manufacturing could ever return to its glory days, when it employed about a quarter of the U.S.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

That’s because there are two primary types of uncertainty — demand uncertainty (will customers buy your product?) In fact, among the top 10 companies of the Forbes Most Innovative Companies list (since 2011 when we started the list), more than 80% of the most innovative companies compete in industries in the top right quadrant.