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Author: Simon Vanstone

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 […]

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