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Generics vs. Innovator vs. CDMO: Three Different Businesses, Three Entirely Different Leadership Needs

An iCresset Insight | Pharma & Life Sciences | July 2026 India’s pharmaceutical sector is often spoken of as a single industry. In regulatory and scientific terms, it is. But from a leadership hiring perspective, it is three fundamentally different businesses each with its own commercial logic, success metrics, and leadership requirements. Treating them as variations of the same industry is one of the most consistent and costly mistakes made in pharma leadership hiring today. The Sector i…

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The War for Leadership Talent in India: Why Getting Your Next CXO Hire Right Has Never Mattered More

An iCresset Insight | Leadership Hiring | June 2026 India’s C-suite is under transformation. Boards are not just filling vacant chair, they are making strategic bets on who will carry their organisations through AI disruption, regulatory complexity, and an increasingly competitive global economy. The cost of getting this wrong has never been higher. And the window to get it right has never been narrower. At iCresset, we have spent years at the intersection of leadership hiring and business str…

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Leadership Hiring in India’s Agri & Food Sector: A Different Kind of Talent War

An iCresset Insight | Agri & Food Sector | June 2026 Ask any HR leader at a leading agrochemical company, a food processing conglomerate, or a fast-scaling agritech startup, and they will tell you the same thing: finding the right senior leader for this sector is harder than it looks from the outside. And it is getting harder every year. The talent war in India’s agri and food sector is real. But it is a fundamentally different kind of war from the one being fought in IT, BFSI, or consumer goo…

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Why India’s Best Pharma Talent Is Being Poached by Global Capability Centres & What Companies Must Do to Respond

An iCresset Insight | Pharma & Life Sciences | Talent Strategy | July 2026 India’s pharmaceutical companies are facing a talent threat that did not exist a decade ago and most are still responding to it with tools designed for a different era. Global Capability Centres (GCCs) of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have arrived in India at scale. They are not just hiring junior scientific staff. They are systematically extracting mid-senior and senior leaders like regulatory affairs sp…

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