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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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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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

Harvard Business Review

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.

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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. Values have to be internalized and lived and cannot be an object on a wall.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. It starts with a focus on skills.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,