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9 Tips for Navigating the Inevitable Unexpected

Leading Blog

Given that the global biotechnology market was valued at USD 1.55 Some fail for a host of strategic or operational shortcomings addressed in any decent business school course. Assemble diverse teams with complementary skills and a shared vision. Models are developed, scrutinized, and refined.

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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

N2Growth Blog

By partnering with executive search firms, organizations operating in the life sciences industry tap into a vast network of experienced professionals with the necessary expertise to excel in these demanding roles and professionals with deep experience identifying and assessing that talent.

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Holographic Light Field Displays

Strategy Driven

Unlike 3D films made for the cinema or stereoscopic televisions operating with glasses, such 3D displays require proprietary content combining as many as eight discrete images. There are already a dozen volumetric capture studios operating around the world that work by pointing dozens, even hundreds of cameras at a group on vast stages.

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Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45

Harvard Business Review

Our team analyzed the age of all business founders in the U.S. To focus on businesses that are closer in spirit to the prototypical high-tech startup, we used a variety of indicators: whether the firm was granted a patent, received VC investment, or operated in an industry that employs a high fraction of STEM workers. Census Bureau.

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

Harvard Business Review

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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How We Built a New Company Culture

Harvard Business Review

I learned this while leading a turnaround of NPS Pharmaceuticals , a biotechnology company that now specializes in creating treatments for rare diseases. To save the 20-year-old company, I had to get it operating like a start-up. Even individuals on NPS’s leadership team who didn’t embrace our values had to go.

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What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

The reason for the interest in in part because the industry has suffered from poor returns on investment over the last decade; indeed, some sectors, including biotechnology, report negative aggregate returns. In effect, the VCs at Nadathur Holdings serve as the executive team for a miniature healthcare innovation ecosystem.