Industry Trends

In our annual temperature check on the life sciences sector and its outlook for the months ahead, we explore eight trends that will shape the biopharma industry landscape in 2018.

States will continue to press for price controls, while FDA will tackle opioids and promote innovation.

Pharm Exec details the latest approaches to combating disease and health crises on a global scale-including industry perspectives from those involved on the front lines.

Figuring out the right formula to address global health-for the better.

New action plan urges tighter alignment of public health policy with the development of targeted therapies.

Bagrat Lalayan presents an overview of osteoporosis treatment market and offers vision for future business strategies.

Mark Bouch, Stephen Bungay, and David Roblin outline how the technique of "mission command", a military approach to setting direction and executing strategy in the pharmaceutical industry, has developed over the last ten years.

With our latest review indicating declines in shareholder value and shareholder value to sales, those companies that score well in critical profit management metrics such as return on invested capital are best positioned to maintain that crucial edge in performance execution.

Our latest review reveals that those companies scoring well on profit management metrics are best positioned to maintain that crucial edge in performance execution.

Maiko Midena discusses the key fundamentals to success when it comes to forecasting with large multinational pharmaceutical organizations.

Pharm Exec's 17th annual listing of the top biopharma players paints a stable picture of performance for the usual placeholders, but change and disruption to current business models could upend positioning in the years ahead.

Intellectual property analysis of one recently approved drug shows how Valiant might have missed out on at least one vital acquisition opportunity. Duncan Clark reports.

Bob Swindell explains how Greater Fort Lauderdale has spent the past few years quietly assembling one of the most dynamic pharmaceutical clusters in the country.

With this year marking our 11th installment, we look back on Pharm Exec's first 10 Brands of the Year-why they were chosen and the challenges, changes, and successes since.

Pharm Exec's Editorial Advisory Board member, Peter Young, cover a summary of the strategic issues facing the biopharma industry, but goes on to tell the story of what happened last year and this first quarter in terms of the stock market, M&A and financing (including IPOs) activity, where it is headed, and the implications for senior management.

The populist-driven shifts trumpeted from the US to the EU leaves plenty of question marks when trying to size up the trajectory of the global pharma industry. One certainty, however, will be change.

With the soaring valuations of companies in the public and M&A markets now seemingly a distant memory, the challenge for pharma and biotech business will be choosing just the right overall mix of M&A, licensing, and partnering.

For ethical pharma companies, there continues to be a wide variety of tools to acquire revenues and pipeline drugs, but the valuations are challenging, writes Peter Young.

How the need for biopharma innovation extends to questions around executive compensation.

Big pharma has become increasingly vulnerable to larger geopolitical and macroeconomic risks-a realization that has slowly creeped into their business planning.

As market headwinds persist, our latest industry review of shareholder value reveals a sharp performance differential between companies that pursue a strategy of specialized therapeutic focus and those that continue to rely on line diversity, size and scale.

With our annual Industry Audit marking its 15th year, we decided to compare 2002 approaches in boosting shareholder value to those of today. The fall in one particular performance metric is telling.

George Sillup and Stephen J. Porth identify the “hot button” issues attracting media attention in 2015.

Pharm Exec adds up some interesting figures from recent industry news.