June 5, 2025June 16, 2025Strategy Consulting Simon joins panel discussion Behind the Headlines Early this week, I joined Chris Spivey on PharmaTech.com’s Behind the Headlines to discuss several of the previous week’s significant life science […]
May 30, 2025June 16, 2025Strategy Consulting ‘First mover’ isn’t always an advantage for new drugs ~1.5 years ago I was reading a Financial Times article (FT.com) on obesity drugs and their order to market when my critical […]
May 22, 2025May 30, 2025Strategy Consulting What does GSK know that Novartis doesn’t? Looking back at R&D bets Following last week’s post on the slow activity in M&A in 2025 so far (Sivan-Consulting), we now have some activity picking up, […]
May 15, 2025July 14, 2025Strategy Consulting A slow start to M&A in 2025, and it doesn’t look to be changing soon… It has been a bit of a writing hiatus as I have been in the middle of delivering a few short, intense […]
March 20, 2025March 13, 2025Strategy Consulting Many pharma companies have zigged… but Teva is zagging. This post/article is worth a read for those interested in the evolution of Pharma Business models: Pharma Exec – The Teva Turnaround […]
March 13, 2025March 13, 2025Strategy Consulting Top pharma’s R&D expenditure, M&A, and In-licensing activity 2012-2021 This follows last week’s post (Link) on the impact of M&A and licensing on FDA drug approvals of leading pharmaceutical companies, based […]
March 6, 2025March 13, 2025Strategy Consulting Is internal R&D, M&A or licensing most impactful on the number of FDA drug approvals? I recently read an interesting paper from Prof. Alexander Schuhmacher et al. on the impact of M&A and licensing on FDA drug […]
February 27, 2025February 20, 2025Strategy Consulting Project History IV – LOE Readiness Done Right 1. Introduction In this project history, I’ll talk about an example of a proactive company preparing for an event several years away, […]
February 20, 2025Strategy Consulting Benchmarking Infographic: How to analyse, report and use your findings If you have decided to do a benchmarking exercise and collected a load of data, including primary research, you’re now probably thinking, […]
February 11, 2025February 11, 2025Recommendations Simon Says Read This Book: Storytelling with Data This week’s recommendation is a book I’m in the process of reading through a second time: Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization […]