Industry Trends

The US is skewing young again, and the "millennials" have the clout to color everything from the nation's cultural landscape to the conduct of business practices like marketing and customer engagement, writes Bill Looney.

Amid the continued surge in M&A activity, Michael Swanick asks, what are the crucial considerations pharma executives should weigh before sitting down at the deals table?

After a dip into negative territory in 2012, 2013 delivered a resurgence in sales revenues, but the turnaround only spotlights a larger trend: the growing divide between the big Pharmas and the more nimble players.

Pharm Exec's 2014 roster of emerging pharma leaders serves as a window on work in an industry that relies on human capital as the coinage of success, writes William Looney.

A surprising takeaway from the recent BIO Convention, writes William Looney, is the stark contrast between cooperative industry engagement and an unstable geopolitical order.

Finding the correct coordinates for big Pharma's endless cycle of re-positioning is just as important as a winning scientific hand, writes William Looney.

For those companies in this year's Pharm Exec Top 50, meeting the accelerating market demand for specialty products has become an acute strategic imperative.

We check back with previous Pharm Exec Brand of the Year winners to see how things are going.

Pharm Exec's Brand of the Year recipients for 2014 are multiple sclerosis treatment Copaxone and KORLYM for diseases driven by excess production of the metabolic hormone, cortisol. We profile the journey of both drugs.

Population health is the foundation for much of what is truly new in US health reform. Pharm Exec talks to Dr. David Nash, Dean of the Jefferson Medical University School of Population Health.

A study of high-performing pharma companies reveals science-based innovation strategies and patient-outcome-based commercial models are now the key drivers of growth.

Pharm Exec's latest survey of press issues shows that media coverage continues to remain on balance negative toward the industry, by a slight margin: 47% this year compared to a 46% average over the last seven years.

2014 might be the year that pharma finally has to get really serious about digital, at least if the analysts are right. Peter Houston reports.

For Big Pharma, the merits of strategic focus and operational discipline are more important than ever. It is time to be decisive - muddling through is so yesterday.

Pricing and personalized medicine are key themes shaping drug development and marketing in the U.S. in 2014, writes Jill Wechsler.

Big Pharma and biotech continue to need each other. But biotech is feeling slightly more confident as the options for IPOs get better, writes Peter Young.

Across a constellation of categories, bright new drugs are moving into position. The pharma model may have changed, but companies are keeping their blockbusters.

At the conclusion of the Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovations Summit each year, 10 innovative technologies are unveiled before the audience, and designated as new and revolutionary tools for the treatment of disease and disability.

With revenues down and margins squeezed by a realigning payer pool, the power to price above the market is the ticket to the top-no discounts allowed.

Our October issue highlights a latent threat to Big Pharma: the behavioral mindset that may be best characterized as "ageing in place."

Meet the Emerging Pharma Leaders of 2013. These 15 trend setters represent the future of an industry that knows it must change: the question is how, and to what?

Patent expiries dampen revenues for some of the biggest Big Pharma, but growth continues unabated for a few nimble "stealth" players moving steadily up the list.

Patent expiries dampen revenues for some of the biggest Big Pharma, but growth continues unabated for a few nimble "stealth" players moving steadily up the list.

In 2012, Merck's diabetes franchise became the highest-selling product family in its 122-year history.

As companies seek safety from empowered payers, bankrupt governments, and distracted regulators, success will come to those who understand how competition and technology are changing the way everything this industry does.

The calendar says its wrap-up time, not just for gifts but for some of the trends that shaped the industry-for good or bad-in 2012.

Eli Lilly's pioneering pact with leading CRO Covance made big news when it happened. Four years later, both parties can point to metrics that suggest the benefit is mutual.

Is the 'lost decade' of declining pipeline productivity finally over? Our annual survey of analyst assessments of the state of drug development suggests so...

Shareholder value now depends on finding pockets of "good" growth, in segments with fewer players, and where expenses can be tightly controlled.

Meet the rest of 2012's Emerging Pharma Leaders. Can these 15 global trend setters set the mark on their time in history?