SPOTLIGHT -
April 12th 2024
Why this role provides a critical ‘boot camp’ for future pharma leaders.
March 12th 2024
Classic views on leadership are sometimes still the most effective.
December 12th 2023
Continuous learning a vital skill for aspiring and established leaders alike.
November 16th 2023
McCullar discusses his new role as CEO of RegCell.
November 13th 2023
C-Suites and their boards should remember that digital transformation is a key part of the larger focus of a profound business transformation.
Supporting Successful Pharma Leadership with Neuroscience-Based Learning
To effectively lead in today’s unpredictable environment, several major pharma companies are turning to a neuroscience-based learning approach to leadership development.
The Importance of Embracing Diversity
Creating behavioral change in the pharma workplace.
Revamping Internship Programs for a Virtual World
A look at how internship programs in the pharma industry have changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Making Strides in Pharma Gender Parity
Collaboratives, company initiatives address systemic barriers.
What Makes for a Great Leader in Pharma, and How to Hire One
A look into the traits that hiring managers of pharma companies should be searching for when hiring for a leadership role.
Clearing the Hurdles to a Career in Venture Capital
Dr. Geeta Vemuri, founder of biopharma investment firm Agent Capital, talks about sustaining a career in the venture capital sector.
Virtual Hiring of the C-Suite
How COVID-19 has changed high-level recruitment.
Pivotal Moments: How Leaders Can Prepare for the Unexpected
Balancing bold and pragmatic approaches during times of crisis.
Competition for Biotech CFOs is Heating Up
Examining today’s go-to options in landing a successful CFO as role evolves.
Is Pharma Too Introspective to be Truly Innovative?
Every major pharma company undertakes some form of diversity and inclusion work. However, that doesn’t mean it’s reaching the decision-makers, writes Stephen Frost.
Doubling Down on D&I
Recognizing that diversity and inclusion is no longer simply a “nice to have,” pharma has boosted efforts in this areas. But just how far are new industry initiatives moving the needle on D&I?
Bridging the Diversity Gap
Diversity and inclusion shouldn’t be something that companies have to work hard at, writes Chris Coe.
Turning Adversity to Advantage: Dr. Laura Huang, Harvard Business School
The Harvard Business School’s Dr. Laura Huang on how executives can manage their career concerns during and after the COVID-19 crisis.
Digital Upskilling
Archaic ways of working need to make way for more agile and nimble response mechanisms enabled by a systematic enterprise-wide digital upskilling strategy, writes Anand Kiran.
A Contingent Workforce Strategy Is Critical to Life Sciences Companies
Speed to market is crucial to the success of launching new products and therapies.
Money Isn't Everything: Beating Salary Inflation
Alan White explores alternative ways for life sciences firms to keep hold of experienced, qualified professionals as demand for pharmacovigilance skills soars.
UK Life Sciences Recruitment: Optimism Reigns Despite Economic Uncertainty
Staying Ahead of the Talent Curve: Navigating the Future of Talent
Some ways that pharmaceutical companies are staying ahead of the talent curve.
Creating an ‘Unbossed’ Environment in the Workplace
How one company’s cultural transformation aims to strengthen and empower its talent base.
'Vision’ Quest: Leading Through Change
Exploring the critical go-to strategies for biopharma C-suite executives in navigating organizational disruption and the impact of global change and volatility on their employees and business.
Building the Startup Dream Team
Key staffing strategies for emerging biopharma entrepreneurs in attracting the talent to bring their visions and ideas to life.
Skills Shortage: An Imminent Threat to Life Sciences Innovation
Industry needs to realize the potential that new treatments and technologies hold and put skills at the top of its collective agenda, write Ian Marison and Peter Levison.
True Grit: Talent Management from the Ground Up
One company’s approach to recruiting and managing talent in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Reinventing Pharma’s Talent Search
Thinning talent pools, combined with evolving industry trends and job-seeker motivations, are testing traditional pharma hiring methods, where targeting new skills and capabilities must become the new norm.
Hiring a Chief Diversity Officer
Nine ways pharma companies can maximize a CDO’s potential value and impact on driving innovation as a business mandate.
Organic Mentorship
Madeline Coffin, Senior VP of Human Resources at Alkermes, on why the best mentorship programs are those that are developed in an organic way and customized to each person’s growth and development goals.
Succession Planning: It's Not Just for Human Resources
Teams and organizations that rely solely on the HR function for succession planning are doing themselves a disservice, write Joy Taylor and Kim Lehman.
Pharma's Incentive Compensation Plan Landscape
As pharmaceutical companies become increasingly focused on retaining key sales people, they continually consider ways to leverage variable compensation as a strategic tool for maximizing the return on their investment in top talent.
Op-Ed: Opening the Golden Door
The talent and tenacity of immigrants can help drive the life sciences industry into the future, if we have the will and the wisdom to encourage it.
Developing Mindful Pharma Leaders
Mindfulness is a key factor in enhancing productivity and success in clinical development leaders and the entire pharmaceutical industry.