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November 29, 2011
With more than 340 registrants, this year’s BioSciences Forum attracted some of the biggest names in the bioscience, biotech, and pharmaceutical industries as well as some of today’s top business leaders. It also drew parallels between the topics of one of our speakers and the IBM Watson simulations from earlier this year on September 28th. Both events discussed the current… Read More
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Posted on October 26, 2011
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VIEW COMMENTS (0) Workplace Health Clinics Enhance Employee Benefits, Cost SavingsOctober 26, 2011As president of a textile company in Hickory, NC, Crockett Dale saw firsthand how working with a provider of onsite employee health clinics improved both the bottom line and employee morale. Now that he’s the CEO of the very same employee wellness firm his company contracted with—Charlotte, NC-based Healthstat Inc.—Crockett is even more of a believer in the idea. Crockett… Read More
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Posted on October 19, 2011
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VIEW COMMENTS (0) Medical Devices Executive to Share Insights at Biosciences ForumOctober 19, 2011The medical devices industry has a lower profile than other biosciences sectors, especially pharmaceuticals, in part because it doesn’t engage in as much direct-to-consumer advertising. But it’s responsible for many life-saving innovations, while at the same time faced with complex challenges, which I touched on in a previous blog entry. To share his invaluable perspective on the opportunities and issues medical… Read More
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Posted on October 13, 2011
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VIEW COMMENTS (0) Creating a Center of Excellence in SustainabilityOctober 13, 2011NC State’s Poole College of Management recognizes the emphasis and importance of sustainability in the corporate world now more than ever. As an institute of learning and higher education, the College understands it must produce future leaders with the knowledge of how to manage and lead businesses in a sustainable manner. To accomplish this goal, the Poole College of Management… Read More
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Posted on October 13, 2011
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VIEW COMMENTS (0) Lessons Learned: Managing a Greenfield Vaccine PlantWhen FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg recently toured Novartis’ two-year-old vaccine plant in Holly Springs, N.C., Chris McDonald felt the same mixture of pride and nervousness that parents feel when their child takes the stage during a school play. After all, the 430,000-square foot, $1 billion plant is the fruit of five years’ worth of planning and execution. Happily for McDonald,… Read More
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Posted on October 10, 2011
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VIEW COMMENTS (0) Using IT to Transform Health Care, One Innovation at a TimeOctober 10, 2011In some ways, healthcare today still has some of the characteristics of 42 years ago when Harry Reynolds began his career with IBM. For one thing, think of all those paper charts cluttering many doctors’ offices. But the industry has made some amazing progress, thanks to people like Harry and the companies he has worked for, which includes, among others,… Read More
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Posted on October 5, 2011
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VIEW COMMENTS (0) Compelling Speakers, Market Movers, and Global Leaders: An Event You Don’t Want to MissOctober 5, 2011If you want to find a Who’s Who listing of movers and shakers in the biosciences industry, look no further than the programs handed out at the annual Biosciences Forum co-sponsored each year by the BioSciences Management Initiative at NC State and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. In a previous blog Why Attend the 7th Annual BioSciences Forum, I mentioned that… Read More
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October 4, 2011
N.C. State students put their trivia knowledge to the test and battled the artificial intelligence computer system, ‘Watson’, yesterday at the Poole College of Management. I’d like to say it was a close fight to the finish, but Watson was the undeniable champion. According to one brave competitor, Eric Whitmire, a sophomore from Wilmington, “I couldn’t even push the buzzer fast enough,… Read More
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September 19, 2011
In today’s business climate, a trend has emerged due to the state of the current economy. Mergers have become more prevalent in order to encourage rapid corporate growth. Mergers can be an effective way of skill transfer and resource sharing, but does this strategy support corporate innovation? The answer is no, innovation does not exist in the face of a… Read More
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August 25, 2011
For the 7th year in a row, the NC State Jenkins Graduate School’s BioScience Management Initiative is hosting a bioscience forum at the NC Biotechnology Center. It will be held on Friday, October 28th. I encourage all that are able to attend, as it is sure to be an informative event full of networking possibilities. As if that is not… Read More
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