A "stealth pharma," according to the folks at Pharmaceutical Executive, is any drug company that's not a Big Pharma. In other words, it's grab-bag of outfits that includes everything from specialty pharmas hawking retread drugs to biotechs to generics makers. Which, of course, makes them difficult to...
Given the challenges facing Big Pharma -- expiring patents, waning drug pipelines, the imploding blockbuster model, and increasing political pressure on its marketing practices -- it's hard not to wonder sometimes just who in their right minds would want to lead its giant but fragile companies over the next decade...
Short of planting a mole, there are few better ways to look into an industry's id than by reading its trade press. And according to those who track pharma most closely -- at times almost sycophantically -- one of the industry's major preoccupations these days is... meetings. ...