Industry Trends

Global pharmaceutical production surged in 2025 due to tariff-driven front-loading but is expected to slow as trade uncertainty, patent expirations, pricing pressure, and shifting industrial policy reshape the industry’s growth, investment, and supply chain strategies.

As the availability and utilization of ultra-high-cost, long-term specialty products such as GLP-1s and cell and gene therapies grows, HR decision-makers and pharmacy consultants must embrace a more value-oriented mindset where they can.

With patent cliffs fast approaching, asset differentiation will be king.

Amid the US reshoring push, drugmakers navigate geopolitical and supply chain risks.

Why the new wave of direct-to-consumer access represents more than a passing trend.

Will the politically fueled reforms and mandates around drug pricing reduce the complexity of the system?

Dr. Bruce Leuchter, CEO of Neurvati Neurosciences, continues his conversation, this time looking to the upcoming year in neuroscience.

Novo Nordisk’s board overhaul signals a decisive return to Foundation-led scientific and operational governance, raising strategic questions about whether the company can sustain U.S. growth and consumer-market leadership in the GLP-1 era without deeper American commercial expertise.

A Q&A with Christopher Stanton, Ph.D., Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Q&A with Harry Totonis, CEO and chairman of ConnectiveRx, on embracing change and seeking better solutions amid today’s challenging playing field for patient access.

A Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association Q&A with Jennifer McCollum, CEO of Catalyst.

The arrival of GLP-1 receptor agonists and dual agonists has delivered unprecedented efficacy, reframed obesity as a chronic disease, and sparked an industry gold rush.

Drugmaker aims to simplify operations, speed up decision-making, and reinvest savings into diabetes and obesity growth opportunities in latest round of pharma layoffs.

The global biotherapeutics company announced that it will seek to streamline operations as part of a broader transformation to boost efficiency, refocus on core businesses, and reinvest in high-priority programs.

Fate Therapeutics, Generation Bio, and ORIC Pharmaceuticals join a growing list of companies implementing workforce reductions as they restructure operations, extend cash runways, and focus resources on advancing lead clinical programs amid challenging market conditions.

The project aims to enhance AbbVie’s chemical synthesis capacity to support next-generation neuroscience, immunology, and oncology medicines, with construction beginning in 2025 and operations slated for 2027.

The company is streamlining its global workforce as part of a multi-year cost-cutting strategy, while raising its 2025 outlook on the strength of key pharmaceutical products.

A Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association Q&A with Stephanie J. Creary, Assistant Professor of Management at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.

Facing patent expiration for its blockbuster Keytruda, Merck aims to streamline operations with significant job cuts and continued R&D investments.

With a backdrop of mounting industry disruption and transition, Pharm Exec’s latest listing of the top global biopharma sales producers, its 25th, points to the importance of organizations doubling down on what they do best while seizing new opportunities to innovate.

Dive into a sampling of data drivers—and expanded insights—poised to impact and reshape our annual leaderboard.

Insights on ways pharmacy benefit managers can tap earned media to enhance their reputation—and demonstrate value through transparency, storytelling, and leveraging data to improve patient care.

Deal includes 23andMe’s Biobank, Personal Genome Service, Total Health, and research services operations.

Jørgensen will step down after eight years as CEO, with a successor search underway while the company reaffirms confidence in its strategic plans amid recent market challenges.

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