BioCentury
ARTICLE | Strategy

Back to School 1997: Nightmares, etc.

Back-to-School Issue

September 2, 1997 7:00 AM UTC

BioCentury frequently is asked whether we ever run out of topics to write about. The truth of the matter is that as the industry has grown, the number of subjects to cover has grown with it. There are more companies, at more stages of development, with more diverse technologies and products than ever before. The result, as we described in last year's Back-to-School Commentary, is more complexity and thus more opportunity to think about new issues.

But in general, for the management and investor communities, many ideas fall into global categories that describe the key success factors for corporate performance, or that promise to influence the industry's structure...