Talent Acquisition Techniques of Top Healthcare Providers

Medical staffing

Recruitment within the healthcare industry is becoming especially tough as shortages and gaps within specialities are more prevalent. It has been estimated that there will be a shortage of approximately 45,000 medical and surgical specialists within the next ten years. Further, the medical industry is also experiencing a shortage of non-clinical staff, like security guards, […]

Continue reading


Downloading Genes: New Genetic Info App-Helix

In a world swathed in layers of mobile-users, tech savvy surfers and app developers, the synthesis of an application for genetics was only a matter of time. The latest innovation to have struck the bell is Helix-an online app for chronicling all your genetic information in order to endow you with a better comprehension and […]

Continue reading


The Lasting Advantage

Why are some firms more competitive than others? This is the central question of my research in the field of strategic management. Decades of research, in both the life sciences and other industries, have converged to suggest there are perhaps three overarching reasons. The first is the most obvious: what academics call the ‘Resource-Based View […]

Continue reading


Pharma and Biotech

Image Source: csafeglobal.com

Collaborations are the voluntary, joint actions of two or more parties to achieve a common goal. This is a straightforward concept in principle, but often more complex in the real world. Within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, one can easily identify at least six major classes of stakeholders, viz. private industry, academia, regulatory agencies, governments […]

Continue reading


Next Generation Pharmacovigilance

In an environment where development costs have increased exponentially while filings and launches have dropped drastically, the pharmaceutical industry and drug regulators face numerous challenges in Pharmacovigilance (PV), patient safety and in addressing areas of unmet medical needs. This combination of issues not only adds unsustainable access restrictions and costs in the long term, but […]

Continue reading