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Biotech Boom: Executive Search Strategies in Life Sciences

N2Growth Blog

Companies often struggle to attract and retain top talent in this competitive landscape, making executive search services vital in outsourcing the time-intensive detective work of identifying and engaging the best talent. This ability to bridge the gap between science and strategy is crucial in such a highly dynamic space.

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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. Too often, any thought of changing a culture, never mind rebuilding it, seems like a Sisyphean task; the weight of the status quo ultimately rolls back and crushes such efforts.

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It's Manufacturing's Turn for Special Treatment

Harvard Business Review

In the 1960s and 1970s, American consumer-electronics companies started outsourcing their manufacturing to Asia. This tight connection between R&D, innovation, and production is present in sectors like biotechnology, advanced materials, and nanotechnology. But by the 1990s, the R&D had migrated there as well.

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

If after looking at your log, you’ve uncovered very little wiggle room, you might explore the idea of outsourcing parts of your project to a paid helper, says Gulati. ” Kate left her job at PerkinElmer in February 2014; the next month, she and her business partner started ORIGƷN, a Boston-based biotechnology company.