Let’s get digital, digital… 

Often entrepreneurs are describing their new company as a digital health start up, but what exactly is digital health?  Some incorrectly think it is anything medical with a website or connected to an iPad.  In his book, The Fourth Wave, Paul Sonnier describes it as...

Indication Selection for a Platform Company: The Faustian Dilemma

At Locust Walk, we are often tasked with addressing complex strategic business issues for our biopharma clients.  Perhaps one of the most common dilemmas is how best to optimize a given company’s clinical development strategy to maximize value.  Specifically, many...

Japan & China: So close yet so different

Having lived in Japan for more than 20 years, I have admittedly become perhaps a little too accustomed to the Japanese lifestyle. This is probably why after a few days in the hustle and bustle of Shanghai, I find myself looking forward to returning to the peace and...