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Product Cycles in the Pharma Industry and How to “Shorten” Them – Part 1
A few weeks ago I commented on what may be the fundamental limit on a stable Pharmaceutical industry — products have to be on the market for at least as long as it takes to replace them. Cash flow significant … Continue reading
Posted in Fixing Big Pharma Research, Management, Research
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Cell Turns 40
The prestigious scientific journal Cell turns 40 this year. Check out this cool interactive timeline of landmark articles published 1974-1984. Additional timeline segments mapping many of the incredible discoveries in cell biology over the past 40 years will be published throughout 2014.
Hitting the fundamental limit of the drug industry?
After a banner year in 2012, the number of FDA Drug approvals dropped back to 27 for 2013, a number more in line with the average rate of approvals for the last few years. As many observers have commented, the … Continue reading
Posted in Fixing Big Pharma Research
Tagged Pharmaceutical industry, Research and development
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Why build a house when you can print it?
Extrapolating the 3D printer trend one step further, researchers are working on systems that can “print” large scale structures made of concrete. Like a house, for example –printed in only 24 hours.
Rigid stack ranking of employee performance and pharmaceutical research is a bad combination
Microsoft’s recent decision to abandon employee stack ranking is just the latest example of the growing skepticism around stack ranking performance management schemes, especially ones that force bottom 5-10% distributions. Sadly, some pharmaceutical firms still use the method. The major arguments against stack … Continue reading
Posted in Fixing Big Pharma Research, Management
Tagged Human resources, Microsoft, MIT, Performance management, stack ranking, Yahoo
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Boston is a Global Financial Center – #7 Actually
Most people think of Boston as a global center for research and teaching, especially in the biomedical sciences. (or perhaps as a center of excellence in American professional sports…). Say “financial center”, however, and the word “regional” comes to mind … Continue reading
Did You Know? 2013 – Technology Impact on Society and Business
Posted in Innovation, Management
Tagged Analytics, Business, Data, iPhone, Research, Technology
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Amazing Images from the Cassini Mission
Following up on the space exploration theme in yesterday’s post (and one from a while back), here is a link to Nadia Drake / Wired Magazine’s summary of discoveries from the Cassini spacecraft’s mission to Saturn. One of my favorites is the incredible … Continue reading
To Infinity… and Back!
Yesterday SpaceX launched its first satellite payload into geosynchronous orbit, at a price 75% lower than currently charged by other commercial launch providers. Even more impressive is the fact that SpaceX has been steadily developing the required technology to slow down and … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Science, Innovation
Tagged Buck Rogers, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, Geosynchronous orbit, SpaceX
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