Course: Strategic Marketing Management Name: Firat Sekerli The Problem: Biopure Corporation has two new products that are Oxyglobin and Hemopure. Oxyglobin is the first new blood substitute for the veterinary market and is ready for consumer use. Hemopure is another new blood substitute for the human market and it will take two years to launch the product from now on. Ted Jacobs‚ vice president for Human Clinical Trials‚ is concerned about creating an unrealistic price expectation
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INTRODUCTION In the case of Biopure‚ the issue is to decide whether to launch Oxyglobin and how to launch it without jeopardizing the potential of Hemopure. Oxyglobin is a substitute to animal blood while Hemopure is a substitute to human blood. The CEO need to identify the influence of the launch of Oxyglobin bring to Hemopure. If the company is launching Oxyglobin‚ the CEO need to decide the price‚ identify the target client‚ choose distributing method and consider the production capacity. The
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Brief Overview: Biopure has two new products namely Oxyglobin and Hemopure. Oxyglobin is a first of its kind‚ new blood substitute for the veterinary market and has passed all the tests and is ready for consumer use. Hemopure is another such blood substitute for the human market and it will take a minimum of two years to launch the product from now. There is a concern about creating an unrealistic price expectation for Hemopure by marketing Oxyglobin before Hemopure. Whereas another point of view
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The Facts about HIV & AIDS After working in the healthcare field for a few years‚ I have come to the disturbing conclusion that there are still so many of us that have no knowledge of this deadly epidemic that’s spreading across the U.S.. This disease is called Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome commonly known as AIDS. AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus‚ also known as HIV. This disease is one of the leading
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The Benefits of Dr. Josef Mengele’s Research Humanity has prospered for years because of the discoveries of the medical community. Many of the discoveries have been results of laboratory experiments on animals. While some of this research has not always been pleasant for the animals‚ the discoveries uncovered significantly compensate for the countless lives lost during the research. During the Holocaust at the concentration camp at Auschwitz different kinds of subjects were used for experimentation
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Charles Drew (1904-1950): Charles Richard Drew was a physician‚ researcher‚ and surgeon who revolutionized our understanding of blood plasma. During World War 2 alone‚ his work allowed blood storage for transfusions that saved many thousands of lives. Drew was born the eldest of five children on June 3‚ 1904‚ in Washington D.C. His father was a carpet installer and his mother was a school teacher. Dr. Drew an excellent student and athlete‚ graduated from Washington Dunbar in 1972. After graduating
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Casey Scholl Mrs. Schroeder English IV 8 December 2016 Is creating a Frankenstein monster actually possible? Victor Frankenstein was one of the first on the list of people in history who were unsuccessful at creating a new and perfect human. Unlike others who experimented on live humans‚ Dr. Frankenstein took body parts from dead people and pieced them together. Although he successfully gave life to a creature‚ the ugliness of it terrified Dr. Frankenstein and many others. Throughout the story
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Dandago Being a paper presented in the M.Sc. Accounting Programme‚ Department of Accounting‚ Bayero University‚ Kano-Nigeria December 15‚ 2009 Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the healthcare systems‚ in particular the blood transfusion services in Lagos State Health Services. The study revealed the challenges‚ the pitfalls and other associated problems of adopting a costing technology which significantly departs from previous practices. The research was based on a single
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because he does not believe cancer keeps growing after a person die. 4. Why did doctors stop giving Henrietta blood transfusions? Henrietta’s body was almost entirely taken over by tumors; her kidneys could no longer filter the toxins from her blood‚ leaving her nauseated from the poison of her own body. So Henrietta’s doctors stop giving her blood transfusion until her deficit with the blood bank was made up WEEK 1 (Prologue‚ Deborah voice) 1. Skloot first learned about Henrietta in a community
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market that currently has no competition: the animal blood substitute market. Obtaining market share is critical now that Biopure’s Oxyglobin has been approved. Biopure has a chance to be the first player to enter this market and recover its research and development costs within two years. Even when Biopure was primarily focused on developing a human blood substitute‚ the opportunistic development and later approval of Oxyglobin‚ an animal blood substitute‚ is a valuable opportunity that has to
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