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HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries

Vantage Circle

It pressurizes the healthcare system, both in terms of nature and scale of the demand and healthcare costs and drug development. Be it sales and distribution or product discovery and development. A Forbes report says many people are leaving big pharma companies for new biotech companies.

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5 Questions to Stress Test Your Unique Value Proposition

LSA Global

For example, one of our Biotech clients focuses exclusively on ultra-rare diseases, one of our high tech clients concentrates solely on the Fortune 500 on the West Coast, and one of our services clients centers their organization entirely around companies that are a “hot mess.” Do We Offer Unmatched Scale?

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Run B2B Sales on Data, Not Hunches

Harvard Business Review

They view the process of collecting direct and more frequent feedback from these stakeholders as the first step in supporting sales representatives, account managers, operations teams and service agents in solving customers’ problems and earning more of their business. The answer lies in scale and approach.

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What Angel Investors Value Most When Choosing What to Fund

Harvard Business Review

In a recent working paper , “Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment,” they report their findings: the average investor responds strongly to the founding team, but not so much to the startup’s traction (its sales or user base) or existing investors. Nearly 20 years ago, William A. (The

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Delivering an Effective Performance Review

Harvard Business Review

Say something like: 'You need to take more initiative in calling potential sales leads.'" A majority of companies require managers to rate their employees — often on a scale of 1-5. Lucy Orren* worked as a director of business development at a biotech start-up in New Jersey. Give specific advice and targeted praise.

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The Best of November 2013

Harvard Business Review

Feature Dismantling the Sales Machine Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman “Wanted: experienced sales professionals looking to maximize earning potential in a fast-paced, competitive sales organization.” Far more lucrative are the sales organizations that create demand, rather than just respond to it.

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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business Review

Often, this means connecting people across units or geographies doing similar work to yield benefits of scale, or identifying points where integrating different perspectives yields agile innovation. In one study, we found discrepancies in connections between headquarters and affiliates, and poor collaboration between engineering and sales.

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