Practical guidance for sponsors to extract meaningful insight—and avoid costly surprises— when vetting CDMO partners.

The University of Colorado Boulder will conduct additional reference checks on final candidates for tenured faculty appointments. The reference check program will enable CU Boulder to collect and ...

Reference checks should be initiated for all final candidates prior to recommending a candidate for the position. Obtain several professional references for each candidate under serious consideration.

ANSWER: We do think that checking references is a critical step in the hiring process. However, it’s important to be savvy when doing this. We’ll share one of our experiences to explain our thinking.