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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Director Recruitment and Skills. Again, we found differences among industries. Setting Priorities.

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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Industries. In healthcare, the firm focuses on the enormous and fast-growing sectors of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology. THE BRATTLE GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. The skills you learned at graduate school or in the industry will be put to use to solve clients’ real-world problems. Office Locations.

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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

Harvard Business

For the industry, the biggest challenge by far has been talent: upgrading skill sets from those sufficient to analyze relatively small amounts of clinical trial data to those required to gain insights from the vast amount of real-world data, including unstructured data such as physicians’ notes, scans and images, and pathology reports.

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