While trade secret is an excellent way of keeping a part of your business secret and allowing you to make money on it, it also gives you absolutely no protection from others inventing the same thing that you have made….   Read more»

I believe in my experience in the pharma industry, a non-compete agreement is a specific document that prevents an individual employee from taking the companies intellectual property that they have learned from or gained in their profession and time in…   Read more»

In my experience in the pharmaceutical industry, I personally never had to deal with the possibility of paying for a modest meal or doing favors for doctors when talking business but as for company policy I had to do training…   Read more»

I work in the pharmaceutical industry where I have one main responsibility/project that I have to do and in the afternoon, i have my other projects which are considered my side projects. In this matrix method, I often find my…   Read more»

Upper Management is often responsible for leading the whole company as a unit and is often not focused on the daily occurring of each day. They are responsible for developing a large grand direction towards what the company will be…   Read more»

Personally, I work in the pharmaceuticals and I believe we see a lot more of the matrix solution being used combined with a type of functional  organization. For me, I directly report to one functional manager who manages my personal…   Read more»

Post market surveillance is absolutely a good thing for a company to do after releasing the product. By watching how the product performs a company can come to the conclusion of what the next generation of product needs to include….   Read more»

Risk management is just as important in my opinion and experiences in industry as the actually Research and Development phase of a project. Being able to look at potential risks associated with the product not only helps with mitigating individual…   Read more»

So in my perspective, I have worked in the pharmaceutical industry and many of the same points that are being taught in our class are essentially the same. The two often times coeincide with each other as each of them…   Read more»

Working in the industry, for now, a year, I have seen the importance of keeping good documentation of everything that happens especially when a product goes through an evolutionary change or in my case a process is improved. For this…   Read more»

I currently work as an R&D Scientist in vaccines, and in our daily processes, design change control and other various IOQ and PQ documents are readily used to modify our robotic machinery that is used in clinical data. Because I…   Read more»

I agree with the points above saying that working backward is the best way to gauge how long a project is going to take. I also agree with @srp98 that giving enough buffer space between each completion deadline is just…   Read more»

I believe that the efficacy of the modern era vaccine especially the covid vaccine and every other vaccine most definitely indirectly affected different populations different than other populations. The socioeconomic status of certain populations as well as quality of healthcare…   Read more»

I disagree that doing clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies does not improve the direction of human wellbeing and doing clinical trials only for med devices has that effect. Many if not all drugs have had to go through extensive clinical…   Read more»

The above answer of being the last hope of some people can be a major driving factor for why some people will take on the risk despite the possibility of the cure not working. This is because the alternative to…   Read more»

Personally, I would prefer to stay within the Research and Development and engineering department mainly because I love to create solutions to problem and I believe going to the marketing and sales division, I would not enjoy that sector of…   Read more»

The effect of color on a marketing effort, even though to an end user/customer it may seem very minute but depending on the brand  certain emotions are evoked that the marketing team may want the company to be associated with….   Read more»

I believe there should definitely be a training course on the general understanding on what the product is and general engineering concepts solely because the sales person is the direct face and the person that the doctor trusts just because…   Read more»