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From Refugee to PhD | Dr. Pradeepkumar Sacitharan

Peter Winick

From dropping out of high school at 16 to becoming an associate professor and VP of Development in Biotech, he defied the odds and carved out a path to success that few could have imagined. And then someone recruited me for VP for business development in biotech as third year VP, and associate professor. What is it?

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Creating Your Own Path to Leadership | Tony Martignetti

Peter Winick

Tony describes how his path transitioned from finance and strategy roles in biotech to thought leadership and executive coaching. He transitioned from finance and strategy roles in biotech to thought leadership in tech, emphasizing that sometimes you need to create the place where you belong rather than trying to fit into predefined roles.

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Weak Ties, Well-Being and Work Today

Ed Batista

With notable exceptions in fields such as biotech or manufacturing, my clients shifted to virtual work in 2020, slowly returned to spending some time in an office over the past two years, and have largely settled into a permanent-hybrid culture. Recent data cited by The Wall Street Journal indicates that U.S.

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9 HR Steps to Create an Impactful Employee Development Plan

AIHR

The benefits of employee development Types of employee development plans The biggest challenges in employee development planning Practical examples of successful employee development plans How can HR assist managers in creating an employee development plan? The benefits of employee development. Skills shortages.

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Exploring the Scope (and Opportunities) of Digital Transformation

Mike Griffiths

Companies such as Humana (health insurance), Amgen (biotech), Automattic (web tools) are not only all-remote, digital success stories – they also run a lot of employee-led experiments. The benefits of empowered teams should have taught us that more people problem-solving and creating is better. Digital Empowerment.

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Best & Worst States For Business 2023: Where The Boom Lives On

Chief Executive

And while the high cost basis of Illinois helped lead to Stellantis’s decision to close its ancient assembly plant in Belvidere, the strength of another of the state’s legacy businesses—life sciences—has helped the Chicago area land a commitment of $250 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to establish a new biotech hub in the city.

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Moderna’s CFO David Meline On Meeting The Pandemic Moment

Chief Executive

I joined the biotech field at Amgen, and I can’t think of an area where there’s more opportunity and innovation going on.”. • Partner with governments. Given the excitement of what Moderna was trying to accomplish, the company “had the benefit of being able to attract the best expert in the world for any particular job,” Meline said.