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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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A New Generation of Drug Therapies Requires New Business Strategies

Harvard Business

The shift to advanced therapeutic modalities (ATMs) promises to change the nature of competition in the pharmaceuticals industry.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. ” It worked.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. Eliminating layers of management.

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Brent Saunders on Building a Bold New Allergan

BCG

The pharmaceutical industry is coping with regulatory pressure to reign in drug prices and dealing with the expiration of profitable patents. In his two-decade career in the industry, Saunders has gained a reputation as both a deal maker and an operator. Excerpts follow.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. In 1982, Andy presented his and Prabha’s mathematical models for sales force sizing and territory alignment to the Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA), using an early Apple computer to display sales territories on-site.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not. Autopsy #1 – Borders.