Project Management: Balancing Line Function and Matrix Approaches Because change is so rapid it is not uncommon for an individual in midcareer to find that the hierarchy is passing him…
Choosing the Number and Types of Drugs to Develop We thought that if we didn’t grab the business, someone else would, and that we would never have this kind of…
International Organization and Management A few megacompanies with broad international presence will be supported by a host of small companies that are scientifically and technically highly specialized. It is argued…
Fads and Fashions in Drug Development Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. –Jack Kerouac, American writer. You go through these…
The Many Facets of Reality: Approaches to Issues and Problems There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes. –David G….
Myths about the Pharmaceutical Industry and Drug Development The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another…
Personnel Issues in Drug Discovery and Development Basic research is very competitive … The competition starts at the lab bench. Alfred W. Alberts, Merck & Company Inc. If you have…
Managing Research and Development and Avoiding Tangents There is, indeed, a specific fault in our system of science, and in the resultant understanding of the natural world … This fault…
Organizing Research and Development The success of a corporate R&D program becomes visible only in the light of its mission and purpose. If the choice is to adopt a generic,…
Interactions and Relationships with the Media The great advantage of a strong and clear signal from the top is that even quiet junior managers, when they are tuned into it,…
