N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A solid grasp of the latest advancements across biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices is essential in driving innovations and the ability to synthesize information and translate it into actionable strategies quickly. This ability to bridge the gap between science and strategy is crucial in such a highly dynamic space.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 8, 2017

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. Why does this matter? I’ll be back in one hour). If you worry about how such a message will be perceived, fear not.

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HR Digest

MAY 14, 2022

The biotechnology company announced Gomez’s appointment as the new Moderna CFO on April 11. The internal probe is with regards to whether or not the incentives that were meant to be used to promote the dental supplier’s products were properly accounted for. Despite the hasty departure, Gomez will receive his pay for the entire year.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 8, 2011

He has spent most of his professional life as a private research consultant, working primarily in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries on research related to mental health. John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist focused on the genes involved in human brain development and the genetics of psychiatric disorders.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Looking Glass Factory in New York/Hong Kong, offers display products that have been used in enterprise settings and their latest offering allow phone and professional cameras to capture realistic holograms. The first products have already begun hitting the market in Asia. ” Instead of flat square pixels, voxels also have depth.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Helping Employees Regain Their Productivity After A Prolonged Absence.

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Research created an elaborate robotic system to streamline the user experience for one of the flagship product lines. I cringed when I heard the story. Bad management?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Your company has just developed an amazing new product. Having observed management teams for decades as a mutual fund and portfolio manager, I have watched numerous companies vanish after a disastrous launch of a product or service. Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. What do you do next?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail). Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Gordon's productivity research.) It was only as new factories were built that took advantage of the unique properties of electric motors that a productivity boom ensued. Only communication has been truly transformed, but is the transformation really as profound as the advent of telegraphs, radio, and TV?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies improve productivity and facilitate better living standards when they penetrate into societies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Are we going to have to work really hard to differentiate the product or products that result from the acquisition? Consider the pharma industry'sdeals standard practice of buying products or companies chasing known therapeutic targets. The deal should be based on something other than a Hail Mary pass or ill-defined synergies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

This systematic experimentation is similar to the experimentation that happens in labs to test out scientific hypotheses or in corporations to test out a product before it is sold widely. Is it possible that local funding could help bolster tourism in Florida, biotechnology in California, publishing in New York, and agriculture in Iowa?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

For instance, a curriculum designed for a local manufacturer of medical supplies and food safety products includes several courses in electronics, welding, lean, torque certification, robotics/programmable logic controllers, precision machining, and management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Fortunes have been made from implants, surgical instruments, and artificial products. And biotechnology and medical devices are among the leading areas for venture capital funding. Virtually every day, there is information about a clinical study with a new way to treat sick people.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's a private, independent company in the Chicago area that handles biopharma production for a number of partners. Hospira began life when Abbott Laboratories spun off its production division, and it is now the world leader in the production of injectable pharmaceuticals. For example, in biotechnology, a field in which the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. China and India, in particular, offer attractive liquidity and investment opportunities VCs haven't seen for a while.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In contrast, New England has increasingly become a hub for ventures in life sciences; the first three-quarters of 2016 saw almost 60% of VC investments in New England go to ventures in biotechnology and medical devices. You need to be plugged into the local informal networks. Doing so requires being there.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. This is not a good scenario for productivity and economic growth. It could be an ideal location for healthcare organizations, but also for those in applied sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

As we’ve written previously , the best path to accelerated growth with limited risk often comes from creating new products and services that leverage a company’s existing resources, customers, and capabilities. Gillette dominated the men’s shaving market with its Mach series of razors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Therefore, we declare that: From the dawn of human society, entrepreneurship – the creation of value by growing, or scaling , an enterprise – has always had a positive and unique social and economic impact on society; Great and successful entrepreneurs have always been, are, and will always be an essential part of great societies as job and wealth (..)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

This industry is fueled by advances in chemistry and biotechnology that allow the use of pharmacological and cosmetic therapies in areas where, earlier, surgical intervention was needed. Today, YouTube and Netflix are actively pivoting the entertainment production industry by creating new original online video channels. Think Frugally.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. It is not by accident that the National Institutes of Health spends $31 billion a year on supporting innovation in biotechnology and pharmacology. Over the years. taxpayers have been very good to Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. There is a wide chasm that separates an initial discovery and a viable product idea. Yet the Valley of Death still remains. Innovating the Innovation Process. Killing Ideas Faster.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. facility in Cambridge Science Park. Reliance MediaWorks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. They’re also sharing risk. The new business model has yet to solidify, and the leaders have yet to emerge. The positions are there for the taking. But not for long.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

If we want to have a strong economy, we need to make sure we’re tilting the playing field in favor of entrepreneurs that are trying to challenge the status quo, innovate, create new products and services, disrupt existing industry, usher in a new way. Because if we don’t do that, somebody else will. I think venture capitalists do play a role.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The paper explores the progress of startups in the US and Israel, and shows that startups that move to America tend to raise more money, get acquired more often, and introduce more new products than their peers that remain in Israel. This has prompted many of the fastest growing companies of our age to congregate in the same places.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. 2 (2005): 447–504.

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