Career Advancement

JULY 1, 2019

For example, a multi-billion-dollar biotechnology company recently contacted me for a training on executive presence to help newly minted high-potential mid-level managers reach the next level of leadership. Here’s the program and what the audience learned.

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Training Execution Biotechnology Audience 179

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

What are the components of innovation capital? One’s innovation capital—or ability to convince sponsors to support a novel idea—comes from three interrelated innovation-specific factors: . Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

To facilitate these, companies typically begin by assessing their human capital needs and job requirements, and then collaborate with schools to produce workers with the needed skills. One approach that has proven to be successful in recent years consists of targeted partnerships between business and education.

Education 8

Education Company Biotechnology Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment. We know two things about biotech in Cuba.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

One strategy might be investing in your own human capital to become the board member corporations need. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., but also by looking at what skills boards already possess and what skills boards need. Methodology.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Location has always been vital for startups, both in terms of providing ready access to human capital to help develop the startup’s proposition, but also to provide ready access to a local market to help develop momentum. This has prompted many of the fastest growing companies of our age to congregate in the same places.

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Biotechnology Human Capital Travel Entrepreneur 65

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Mary Shelley told us nothing about the future of biotechnology, but the popularity and plausibility of Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus tells us a lot about 1818’s fears and aspirations for technology and its relation to society. Taken as a whole, science fiction’s predictions do not outperform random chance.

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