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Captivating Moonrise Podcast Series Highlights Role Of Narrative In Technology Adoption
Powerful evolving narratives inspire, inform, reflect, and define all our activities, particularly efforts to introduce emerging technologies into established organizations; entrepreneurs must recognize, engage, and at times originate and advance such …
Getting Beyond Hype Vs Hope in Precision Medicine and AI: The Life Cycle Of Technology Revolutions
Technology transformations tend to follow a well-described pattern. Debates around successive emerging healthcare technologies – precision medicine, AI – are just the most recent iterations of the discussions that have surrounded the introduction of ev…
The Digital Dozen: My 12 Takeaways for HBS On Data, DNA, And Pharma
As a physician, scientist, technologist, drug developer, investor, I’ve accumulated my share of experience+perspective, which I recently had the chance to distill+share as a guest on a new podcast series out of Harvard Business School. Here are my 12 t…
Engineering As Translation: What Biomedical Entrepreneurs Can Learn From A Petrol CEO
In his latest book, engineer and former BP CEO John Browne addresses several themes related to technology and translational that are likely of particular interest to biomedical entrepreneurs.
The Engineers Captivating Pharma Make Cells Not Software
The ambitions of startups in the cell therapy space illustrates just how incredibly audacious – and routinely audacious — biological engineering has become.
AI And Healthcare: Is The Bloom Finally Off The Rose?
Following the predictable recent cycle of extravagant expectations — and attendant disappointments — around early efforts to apply AI to healthcare and drug discovery, we need to move from theoretic benefit and evangelical sales to established use ca…
In Praise of Breadth: Why “Range” May Be The Year’s Most Important Business-And Parenting-Book
Range author David Epstein worries our obsession with hyperspecialization has gotten out of hand, in the process obscuring an important counter-narrative that values breadth and lateral thinking, tolerates ambiguity and inefficiency, embraces meanderin…
In Praise of Breadth: Why “Range” May Be The Year’s Most Important Business-And Parenting-Book
Range author David Epstein worries our obsession with hyperspecialization has gotten out of hand, in the process obscuring an important counter-narrative that values breadth and lateral thinking, tolerates ambiguity and inefficiency, embraces meanderin…
Two Lessons From Two Shoe Guys: What Allbirds Can Teach Health Tech Entrepreneurs
Two key lessons for health tech entrepreneurs from Allbirds founders: 1. understand what customers actually wants (virtue in itself may not be as compelling as you think); 2. incumbents may talk change but tend to embrace incremental improvements (so f…
The Sociology Behind Data Silos In Pharma R&D
From the perspective of those responsible for delivering the primary data analysis – the original reason the data were collected – there is generally no perceptible upside for investing precious and limited time and capital (and quite perceptible downs…
