The 16-session manager training program was phenomenally successful. Ninety percent of the attendees were offered promotions within a year of their graduation. Why was the program so successful?

The only good way to prepare for an emergency situation is to think through how you should respond and then practice doing it correctly.

Classroom training sandwiced between pre- and post-course online activities delivers strong results.

The pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries are experiencing watershed changes that are directly driving the need to increase research efficiency while minimizing costs.

Problem: The use of laboratory automation increases productivity and precision, making it attractive for use in the pharmaceutical industry.

Chemical procedures commonly require the introduction of heat. This is typically in the form of a hot plate or open flame. While the best place to perform these types of chemical procedures is inside a chemical fume hood, most people are unaware of heat’s effect on the airflow through the fume hood, and the potential impact on containment.

Cleaning and rinsing lab and process carboys and containers by hand inevitably leads to problems with cross-contamination.

Sarah Haviland, lab manager and graduate student in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the Medical University of South Carolina, shares her experiences with contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, Ph.D., on choosing and installing a new point-of-use water purification system.

Last month we provided important and practical information about project management techniques and their usefulness in laboratory management. This month we turn our attention to a different management challenge that becomes more commonplace every day in every industry.

Methods for determining which undesirable conditions require root cause analysis and which do not.

What today's manager must know to successfully manage remote and culturally diverse teams.