I finally read Startup to IPO by Donald Macadam. It was excellent and more importantly in my time-starved schedule very concise. I think that some of the information will be very helpful to the Biotech Business Plan we (the company …
A friend of mine is the executive director of the Limb Preservation Foundation. Until she took the job, I had never heard of this local non-profit organization whose goal is literally to save lives & limbs. This organization, and a …
I’ve been on a book shopping spree to find books to help with the revision of the Biotech Business Plan for the business plan competition. I will probably start with the shortest of the new books: “Startup to IPO: How …
The owners of one of the biotech companies that leases space in my research building have been allowing me to use their company as a focus of several of my MBA class projects. Over the summer, I wrote a Business …
I get asked from time to time, why, when I already have a PhD, would I go back to school at night to get an MBA? There are many answers to this question, depending upon the day and my mood …
Between the classes I’m taking and the class I’m teaching, today makes 4 days of exams in the last 5 days. Due to their over ambitious schedules, my students took their regularly schedule exam on three different days. At least …
Strange things happening at my work and an experience in the classroom that I had today have me thinking about an article I read in my first semester of business school entitled On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping …
I am teaching a class on human genetics for non-science major undergraduate students. It’s part of a three quarter long series covering “the past”, “the present” and “the future”. I teach “the present”. This is the second year that I …
There is a fine line between honesty and compassion. I have a very difficult time finding balance between these values. I tend to personally value honesty a bit more and thus tend to draw the line closer to pure unadulterated …