Business Strategy for Life Scientists

Welcome to the course page for Business Strategy for Basic Scientists This content is designed provide an overview of how scientific enterprises use strategy to achieve their overarching goals. What is Strategy? Strategy is knowing where you want to be and how you want to get there. Strategy reflects both the long term and short term organizational goals. Defining your strategy helps you achieve your goals by directing your daily objectives. The goal of this workshop is to help prepare scientists who want to start their own labs, and inform scientists who want to go into industry. As a scientist, you may need to develop strategy as an individual, as part of a lab or group, and as part of a scientific enterprise. This page has lecture videos, case study information and other resources to help you prepare for the Business Strategy workshop.