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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

N2Growth Blog

Another hurdle in recruiting for biotech and life sciences is a constantly shifting regulatory environment in an industry where compliance with the already strict guidelines ensuring safety and efficacy is already time-consuming. This ability to bridge the gap between science and strategy is crucial in such a highly dynamic space.

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Best Executive Coach

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This experience isn’t just in terms of years spent coaching but also in the depth of understanding diverse business environments and leadership challenges. They are adept at creating a coaching environment that resonates with the individual’s personal and professional context.

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The Reason Silicon Valley Beat Out Boston for VC Dominance

Harvard Business Review

The transformation that started in retailing, music, and movies in the 1990s has now spread to education, financial services, cars and trucks, transportation services, energy and the environment, hotels and lodging, life sciences, all types of manufacturing, and even shipping, to name just a few. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Innovation ranks fifth, after more-conventional concerns such as attracting and retaining top talent and the regulatory environment. Fostering diversity in demographics is one pathway boards can use to ensure that a wide range of viewpoints and areas of expertise is represented. How Boards Can Foster Innovation.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? ” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose?

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., Not rising costs.

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Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision

Harvard Business Review

Take the decision of Sam Waksal, the former CEO of the emerging biotechnology company ImClone Systems. Although many organizations outwardly express a desire for a diversity of opinions, in practice those differing viewpoints are often stifled by the desire to agree or appease others.

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