How have you leveraged hard science to help solve organizational stagnation at formally groundbreaking companies?

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Safi Bahcall (Author, Physicist & Former CEO, Synta Pharmaceuticals)

Safi Bahcall provides examples of companies that had great breakthrough products and then got stuck. He explains how companies can find it difficult to work on the next crazy idea while continuing to deliver on their core products. Bahcall provides an overview of how his scientific approach to leadership and product management can help companies balance product development and maintaining management of current products and services.

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Safi Bahcall

Author, Physicist & Former CEO, Synta Pharmaceuticals

Safi Bahcall is a second-generation physicist (the son of two astrophysicists) and a biotech entrepreneur. He has been profiled by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker and has written for The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and The Scientist. He led its IPO and served as its CEO for 13 years. In 2008, he was named E&Y New England Biotechnology Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2011, he worked with President Obama’s council of science advisors (PCAST) on the future of national research. He is the author of Loonshots.

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Tracey Fitzpatrick

Tracey Fitzpatrick

Sarder TV Anchor & Former Market News Video Anchor

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