Northern Biotech Consulting Case Competition
We are now welcoming applicants to NBI's Northern Biotech Consulting Case Competition. The nature of this competition hopes to bring together students and professionals from a range of multidisciplinary backgrounds to focus on consulting and biotechnology. Acting as consulting firms, teams will present a recommendation to our expert judges on which start-up a large biotech company should acquire to increase its portfolio. Teams will be presented with profiles of several
Will your venture sink or swim?
Success and gain in business is mostly a reflection of a powerful value proposition. A value proposition is a promise statement that a company commits to its target customers; it explains how the offered product or service solves a problem embedded in the customer's needs. A capable value proposition should alleviate pain, create gains/benefits and, ideally, should have a unique differentiating selling point to convince the customer that what you're offering is better than th
Will the Global Need for Antibiotics Outpace that for Profit Margins?
On the 30th of April 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released an analytical report following an in-depth investigation on the effect of antibiotic resistance across a panel of 114 countries. The report lays emphasis on seven bacteria responsible for common infections, which have quickly evolved to pose a threat to human life due to the development of antibiotic resistance. One of the key findings of the report was the assertion that there has been little or no globa
