Since NIH released NOT-OD-25-068 in February of last year, I’ve been obsessed with indirect cost recovery. I’m not an economist, and I don’t have visibility into university balance sheets - they’re not transparently shared. But it’s hard not to notice that universities often talk about indirect cost...

In his influential work, The Discipline of Innovation, Peter Drucker delivers a clear and enduring message: innovation is not a matter of luck, sudden inspiration, or merely a character trait of those endowed with an entrepreneurial spirit. It is a structured, systematic process that is rooted in ob...

In times of instability and uncertainty, I tend to focus on opportunity. In stable periods, the status quo becomes entrenched and difficult to challenge. Humans and institutions alike gravitate toward predictability and the comfort of familiar systems. That is why the last five years of turbulence a...

There’s plenty to be said about the current volatility in federally funded research: unpredictable executive orders, shifting rules and compliance notices, and open threats of budget cuts or clawbacks. These developments are destabilizing and distracting.

Even without the recent noise from Washingt...