If you had to pick one of the following functions to specialize in, which one would you pick and why?

P&MA, BD&L, R&D, Commercial Strat

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Commercial strat is broadest and most applicable post consulting transfer imho

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Curious on what makes you say that? I guess commercial strat would be a natural pivot into HCP sales and marketing functions within pharma but is there anything else?

Access. It’s the intersection of most commercial and medical functions.

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Saw this today, thought it’s semi relevant to this discussion

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It depends on what you want to do after consulting

i know people in vc that value market access knowledge more, people in industry in bd that value commercial strategy, people in equity research that like regulatory and heor knowledge, it all depends and ofc everything i said is also subjective

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To keep my exit options as broad as possible, aka give me a skillset that is the most applicable/relevant across functions or industries even

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