The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Too attached The issue is that academics can become too attached to their own ideas and technologies. After spending years on a specific topic, they might have a hard time adapting when they discover that their technology isn’t quite right for the market. This resistance to change can be a major problem. They were also 2.5%

Biotechnology 70

Biotechnology IPO Entrepreneur Technology 70

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 8, 2017

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. If you can’t step away from technology completely during work, consider limiting how often you check email.

Management 165

Management Short-term Biotechnology Long-term 165

Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it be information technology, biotechnology, agriculture or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Since World War II, the United States has been an innovation superpower. Other nations may challenge in one field or another, but no one can match its depth and breadth.

Biotechnology 84

Biotechnology Innovation Information Technology Company 84

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI is merely one facet of a sweeping technological change underway, and companies that fail to recognize the importance of other converging technologies risk being left behind. Two other technologies advanced sensors and biotechnology are less visible, though no less important, and have been quietly advancing.

Biotechnology 28

Biotechnology Technology Industry Innovation 28

Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

A hectic work schedule, increased responsibility, new technology, and the need to read and respond to a daily deluge of email and voicemail place huge demands on your work life. Over a five-year span, one of my clients in the biotechnology field kept moving up through the ranks, from manager to senior manager to VP. And yet the U.S.

Tips 156

Tips Biotechnology Objective Learning-by-Doing 156

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Moderna, a prominent pharmaceutical and biotechnology firm, adopted an unconventional approach utilizing RNA technology to develop one of the COVID-19 vaccines. Their advisory board consists of individuals with educational backgrounds in fields such as medical sciences, economics, journalism, and finance.

Diversity 111

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 111

HR Digest

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The best paid jobs of 2019 are in healthcare, information technology, data analytics, finance, engineering, and law ( see infographic below ). There are some other categories not listed here which are showing remarkable growth, including life sciences and biotechnology and research.

Biotechnology 90

Biotechnology Finance Survey Software 90

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas.

Bureaucracy 232

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

” ~ Arianna Huffington A hectic work schedule, increased responsibility, new technology, and the need to read and respond to a daily deluge of email and voicemail place huge demands on your work life. With all this pressure, you might feel as if your work is a prison that you can never escape. And yet the U.S.

Tips 120

Tips Biotechnology Objective Learning-by-Doing 120

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

There have also been great leaps forward in biotechnology and even people without investment experience in the industry can find a niche sector to become involved in. Technology. Technology is innovation and looks likely to form the foundation for much of our society for the foreseeable future. Financial sector.

Health Care 66

Health Care Biotechnology Energy Insurance 66

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Leapfrogging advances in materials, photonics, optics, and electronics have precipitated a rising demand for 3D display technologies. The increased demand for enhanced imaging and the adoption of 3D technologies in smartphones, HMD devices, projector devices, and monitors are expected to catapult 3D displays across a new threshold of realism.

Technology 98

Technology Content Video Globalization 98

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 28, 2012

While Silicon Valley is best known for their technology companies – Google, Yahoo, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Facebook to name a few, the Bay Area is also home to some of the most cutting edge biotechnology and medical device companies. The job at a small biotechnology company was a great match for his skills.

Biotechnology 38

Biotechnology Performance Review Technology Review 38

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I imagine for some of you, your answer would be the personal computer and all the technological marvels that now make up our digital world. If I were to ask you what you thought was the greatest invention in human history, what would be your reply?

Power 100

Power Long-term Uncertainty Biotechnology 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

Innovation 83

Innovation Reputation Social Capital How To 83

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. I cringed when I heard the story.

Biotechnology 41

Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies improve productivity and facilitate better living standards when they penetrate into societies.

Information Technology 17

Information Technology Technology Information Trends 17

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 20, 2025

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Many experts suspect that the COVID crisis is receding into the background. It is, of course, hard to know for sure. There will continue to be debate and we will still need to have some mitigating measures in place. Still, for the most part, people are back at work, kids […]

Crisis 114

Crisis Course Biotechnology Technology 114

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

It's an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. but the emerging markets boom has generally been more about catching up than exploiting cutting-edge technology.). Even beyond the technological challenges, there are lots of other obstacles to change. Or something like that.

Stephenson 19

Stephenson Innovation Biotechnology eBook 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

Energy 13

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Moreover, it forgot that it will continue to do well in China and India not just by keeping costs low but also by developing new technologies.

Globalization 15

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

And biotechnology and medical devices are among the leading areas for venture capital funding. Coordinating health care information technology requires government action, which was a decade slow in coming. Virtually every day, there is information about a clinical study with a new way to treat sick people.

Health Care 15

Health Care Biotechnology Mayo Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The reason for the interest in in part because the industry has suffered from poor returns on investment over the last decade; indeed, some sectors, including biotechnology, report negative aggregate returns. China and India, in particular, offer attractive liquidity and investment opportunities VCs haven't seen for a while.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

That was the question Todd Pierce asked himself in 2006 after years of experimenting with the full menu of trainings, meetings, and competency models in his capacity as CIO of biotechnology giant Genentech. I remember sitting there and saying, 'There's got to be a another way.'". "If

Development 21

Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget. That these were unwise deals may seem obvious today, but the trick is to see that at the time of purchase and not succumb to blind enthusiasm for new waves of technology. If it's the latter, you might want to reconsider.

Innovation 14

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Innovation 14

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

My most important message to you individually and collectively today is: Please be more humble and more willing to accept your dependence on technology for your future personal and professional effectiveness. You need technologies like me to succeed. You have gotten to where you are because of technologies like me. Technology'

Biotechnology 12

Biotechnology Technology Class Hedge 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Innovation Company Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

If you look at the last 20 years or so, venture capitalists did help make the Internet possible, did help make biotechnology possible, are driving a lot of investment in energy technologies and transportation technologies and government services and educational services and healthcare and so forth.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Company Biotechnology Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. This also stands in stark contrast to the steps that Apple, Google, and other technology companies take to avoid paying taxes. government's risky investments have had for technology-based corporations.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. Not rising costs. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Talent Management 10

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

You may ask, what are some risky investments that stand a high chance of failure but, if successful, enable larger technological leaps that promise earthshaking impact? Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Find Pivots.

Skills 11

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Sure, with improvements in information technology and communication, some services are becoming more tradable and that creates opportunities for the U.S. This tight connection between R&D, innovation, and production is present in sectors like biotechnology, advanced materials, and nanotechnology. But let's not kid ourselves.

Health Care 10

Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. facility in Cambridge Science Park. Decentralize and empower global R&D units.

Globalization 11

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., We also looked at results by industry and region.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Health Care Biotechnology Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

Health Care 9

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. The same underlying technologies (e.g., Silicon Valley dominates these platform technologies. The likely trend in global technology entrepreneurship?

Drucker 8

Drucker Biotechnology Software Entrepreneur 8