Cambridge Network: Study examines cultural fit in big pharma integration
Piyush Durani, an Executive MBA graduate of Cambridge Judge (EMBA 2018), measures cultural fit in the $74 billion merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene. “As I progressed through my EMBA programme in 2018-2019, the BMS acquisition of Celgene was announced…
Big pharma
Piyush Durani, an Executive MBA graduate of Cambridge Judge (EMBA 2018), measures cultural fit in the $74 billion merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene. Piyush Durani The well-known business expression "culture eats strategy for breakfast" is particularly apt for mergers…
Pharma shift
The pharmaceutical industry's focus on procedures and dealmaking could change significantly in this uncertain period, five Cambridge Executive MBA graduates say in a webinar for the What's Next? How to Survive and Thrive in a Post COVID-19 World series. Here's…
Investing in Cambridge drug discovery
PharmEnable raises £1.8 million for drug discovery expansion. PharmEnable, a venture supported by the Accelerate Cambridge programme at the Entrepreneurship Centre of Cambridge Judge Business School, said it has secured £1.8 million in a seed financing round led by Cambridge…
Biotech vs big pharma
Most approved "priority" medicines are developed by biotech rather than large pharmaceutical firms, says a two-decade study at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Biotech companies created 40 per cent more US Food & Drug Administration-approved "priority" drugs than…
Manhattan Project?
A "multiple-shots-on-goal" approach is needed to find coronavirus drugs, Cambridge Judge academics say in California Management Review. A many-shots-on-goal approach - not command and control - will most effectively develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 (coronavirus), Cambridge Judge Business School academics say in a new California Management Review article. Professor Christoph Loch While some have suggested…
Drug trials
An Executive MBA alumnus, Dr Rav Seeruthun, heads a Roche team that has developed a drug being tested to fight COVID-19. Dr Rav Seeruthun (EMBA 2013) of Cambridge Judge Business School, is heading a team at the Roche UK Medical Directorate that has developed…
Growth recognition
Cambridge Healthcare Research, co-founded by Cambridge MBA alumnus Max Rubin (MBA 2010), awarded Queen's Award for Enterprise. Cambridge Healthcare Research Ltd, a firm whose Founding Partner is Cambridge MBA graduate Max Rubin (MBA 2010), was awarded a Queen's Award for…
Cambridge Executive MBA participants respond to the COVID-19 crisis
Participants in the 2019 cohort the Cambridge Executive MBA programme have implemented rapid changes within their respective organisations to respond to issues related to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis. By considering how they can adapt organisational assets, utilise professional competencies and…
Fast Company: How open-source medicine could prepare us for the next pandemic
A study on drug repurposing co-authored by Dr Nektarios Oraiopoulos, University Lecturer in Operations Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, is quoted in the article. The study found that “about 31 per cent of drugs approved by the FDA had…