Biopharma Business
Maida
Taylor
Playing Well with Others: Can an MD find happiness in the Pharmaceutical Industry?
In 1961, the medical sociologist Anselm Strauss published his seminal study, “The Boys in White,” about how the treatment of medical students affects their characters and behaviors. In 1956 and 1957, at the University of Kansas Medical School, the authors “lived, ate, and, figuratively spea...
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Ping
Xiao
Innovation Is Also the Key for Your Career Success In a Post-recession World in the Industry -The 7 Innovation Secrets of Steve
Innovation is a fundamental skill for a PhD, an important part of being a good technician and helping the PhD to design experiments that yield precise results. In order to get a PhD degree, however, one has to have new ideas and new findings in a specific field. Yes, we know how to analyze, an...
Todd
Pihl
Academics to Business – The Tough Transition
Over the next few months, my colleagues and I are going to be writing about the transition from being an academic scientist to working in the commercial sector. In some cases, we'll talk about it from the standpoint of a postdoc looking for their first position in the commercial sector a...
Randall
Ribaudo
The Importance of Understanding the Human Workflows
What is the Human Workflow? It is my passion. It is the process by which actual users-- real humans want or need to function in order to get certain tasks done. And it is one of the most ignored concepts in the business world-- whether in product development, sales, customer support-- wh...
Marielena
Mata
The Summit or How to Develop the Courage to Think BIG
This blog is about thinking BIG. I hosted “The Summit” and you might ask, what is the Summit? The Summit was my BIG thought. Let me explain…Last year I got involved in one of those “Corporate feel good” teams, tasked with the job of bringing innovation into our corporate ...
Maida
Taylor
Drug Discovery, Research and Development
I was at dinner with a former colleague, discussing new business opportunities. During the course of the conversation, it became apparent that the complexities of drug research and development are not understood in many quarters. We were discussing a new potential drug. Without rev...
Liang
Zhang
Life after PhD
My life after obtaining a Ph.D. has been one that’s filled with change and opportunities. Since I graduated from the Neuroscience Program at the University of Michigan last summer, I have launched campus organizations, led my own entrepreneurial team in exciting projects, became a postdoctor...
Maida
Taylor
What Kind of Doc Do You Want to Be…MD or PhD?
I came to a critical juncture in my career in 1969. I was pre-med for the first three years of my undergrad studies at Tufts where the environment was toxic and cut throat. Though I never saw such things, it was rumored that students sabotaged each other’s experiments. In physical chem...
Ray
Wang
The Great Wall
The Chinese people began to build the Great Wall of China in the 5th century BC. The great wall is for protecting the country from invasion, theft and plunder. Today, as we enter the globalized technical-oriented industrial/business world, protection like the Great Wall is still needed, even more es...
Xiaoli
Du
Pink Ribbon Bow in Marketing
Did you ever see a pink ribbon bow design on a T-shirt, stickers on the back of a car or on a pink balloon? Did you feel overwhelmed by this pink bow? Do you know what the pink bow stands for? Yes, it represents breast cancer awareness. Today, I am going to talk about the story of pink ribbon bow.