The New York Academy of Sciences held its kickoff last night of Scientists Without Borders. “It’s a Match.com for organizations and resources focused on helping the developing world,” said NYAS president Ellis Rubinstein.
The initiative so far consists of a just-launched wiki—and, as such, leaves a little to be desired in terms of content. But the […]

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The last time Pharm Exec covered Valeant Pharmaceuticals, it was in 2005, and things were looking good for the company. It had a new name, and a sleek new organization, lighter than the old by 8,000 employees. New CEO Timothy Tyson had created a talented and enthusiastic new management team. A new strategy was in […]

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The Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy is all grown up. The nonprofit is flourishing under its executive director, Cindy Pigg (right), who took the reigns back in 2005 after handling pharmaceutical contracting for Cigna for 17 years. She just rang me to talk about her work to retool the organization to do the research that’s […]

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Don’t miss the current issue of Fast Company magazine, which features a look at a fascinating new program at Pfizer. It seems that in the wake of the company’s deep layoffs, Jordan Cohen, senior director of organizational effectiveness, started looking at what executives were doing and discovered that lots of it consisted of menial tasks—researching, […]

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Face it: Lots of us have a certain penchant for business books. Whether memorizing the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People or swearing by Seth Godin, we come away from these books ready to organize better, communicate more, etc, etc.…
But Zenobia: A Tale of Triumph Over Yes-People, Cynics, Hedgers, and Other Corporate Killjoys is different—and […]

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