RSA Viewpoints
Biotech & Money, London, 2016
The meeting focused on harnessing the value of innovation and new models for collaboration. No small task. It had a strong UK focus but...
What Makes Successful Biotech Boards?
This report looks forensically at correlations between company performance and Board composition. From this we draw out lessons that can be learned from the...
New study looks at the impact of boards on biotech company performance
UK companies performing less well than those in mainland Europe RSA has published the latest of its Talent Equity® reports, an analysis of biotech company...
Report from JP Morgan 2016
The ‘Salmon Run’ of the Life Sciences is over for another year. Here are some take home messages. Public funding is uncertain but institutional investor coffers are full The withdrawal...
Talent equity is the long term value of biotech
Valuation of IP is familiar to every investor in the biotech sector and careful due diligence is essential before putting money at risk. We...
RSA’s Chris Molloy and Nick Stephens speaking at the Pharma Integrates Conferences – November 2015
Chris Molloy talks about the future of ‘big data’ in Pharma (INSERT VIDEO) Nick Stephens on ‘The people ingredient: mapping Pharma’s future’ (INSERT...
Talent: the key to biotech value creation
Everyone’s happy to talk about how important talent is to tech and life sciences companies but when it comes to valuation the financial community...
Avoid firing through better hiring
Luke Johnson, the serial entrepreneur and investor made a critical insight in his recent column in the Sunday Times. He wrote about how difficult and costly it...
Specialised Skills and Total Focus Driving Orphan Growth
By Chris Molloy, CEO of RSA, the world’s largest Talent Consultancy dedicated to the Life Sciences industry. It’s easy to be patient-focused when you’re...
Due diligence needed in exec hiring: the difference between success and failure
We recently showed the cost of making bad senior hires, with 48% going wrong in the first 18 months. To remind you of the enormity of...
Hiring new talent – it pays to be diligent
Companies hire new senior talent to fuel corporate success. Too often it proves to be an expensive failure. New data from Leadership IQ1 across...
Transformational leadership for Singapore health initiative
Investment in oral health The 23rd September 2015 saw the ground breaking for a new Institute of Oral Health in Singapore. We believe that this...
The executive interim community calls for a ‘conscious coupling’ of RPOs and interims specialists
A voice of choice is emerging from the executive interim community and this is as encouraging as it is concerning. Online forums are rife...
It’s a seller’s market
How the world has changed Twelve months’ ago the life sciences executive search market was driven by employers, the market was recovering from three...
Lowering the business risk of hiring senior talent
Hiring the wrong people into senior positions is a big financial and reputational risk. Recent research shows that 48% of new hires fail within...
New management talent needed to support biotech renaissance
2014 saw VCs plough $6.55bn into the biotech sector, with Europe alone seeing a year-on-year increase of $1.24bn. The figures tell a story of...