Roche Holding AG: Funding the Genentech Acquisition Financial Policy March 5‚ 2015 Morgan Ephriam Kristopher Kirkpatrick Jasmine White 1. Statement of the Problem In the case Roche Holding AG: Funding the Acquisition‚ Roche and Genentech are interested in an acquisition. Roche is acquiring about receiving all outstanding shares of Genentech. Roche Holding AG is a Switzerland-based pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company. It discovers‚ develops and provides diagnostic and therapeutic products
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development in every sector of the economy. Success lies in the ability to adapt with changing times. The Roche Group is a leading international healthcare company with principal businesses in pharmaceuticals‚ diagnostics and vitamins. The company is active in more than 150 countries and employs approximately 62‚000 people worldwide. The Roche corporate headquarters are in Basel‚ Switzerland. Roche is committed to improving healthcare by discovering‚ developing‚ manufacturing and providing pharmaceutical
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Case Sustainability Initiative at Roche Table of Contents Introduction 3 Sustainable development: the triple bottom line 3 Economic‚ social and environmental responsibility 3 Social responsibility: the key elements 5 Corporate Responsibility Innovation at Roche 5 What is corporate responsibility? 5 Corporate responsibility according to the Roche corporate brochure 6 Target of responsibility as reflected in reported organizational structures‚ policies and practices. 7 Gaining competitive
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Q1. Explain how utilitarian might prove a defence for Roche and how a rights-based ethic might instead condemn Roche’s drug trails in China. A. According to the Utilitarian Ethics point of view that support the benefits of greater number of people compare to the loss of fewer people or supports the idea that gives happiness to the majority. As far as this case is considered utilitarian does support Roche’s drug tests on transplant patient because the test helps the company to create medicines like
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What Is Ethics? Ethics is the part of philosophy that deals with good and evil. Ethics tries to answer questions like: • What actions are good? What actions are evil? • How can we tell the difference? • Are good and evil the same for everyone? • How should we make hard decisions that might help or hurt other people? The Four main studies of ethics are; • Meta-ethics‚ about the theoretical meaning of moral propositions and ethical opinions; • Normative ethics‚ an abstract set of principles
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SCHOOL OF LAW Year 2013-14 Term 1 LAW001 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Instructor: David N. Smith Practice Professor‚ School of Law Tel: Email: Office: 6828 0788 davidsmith@smu.edu.sg School of Law‚ Room 4044‚ Level 4 COURSE DESCRIPTION Issues of ethics and social responsibility arise in all professions and all aspects of life. The failure to anticipate‚ recognize and deal effectively with these issues can have serious implications for individuals‚ companies‚ governments
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1) Why is Roche seeking to buy the 44% of Genentech it does not own? From Roche’s point of view‚ what are the advantages of owning 100% of Genentech? What are the risks? Roche is looking at this acquisition as a source of internal growth; the advantages are for research reasons‚ cutting cost creating a synergy by eliminating duplication of efforts and having easily access to Genentech’s free cash flow optimizing tax issues. Some analyst are concern that Genentech would lose its independence
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CARE ETHICS (The Ethics of Care) A Presentation of the Northeast Ethics Education Partnership and Ethical Awareness for International Collaboration‚ Brown University‚ 2012 Introduction • Care ethics [The ethics of care] originated among feminists who maintained‚ on the basis of Carol Gilligan’s work‚ A Different Voice ‚ that women and girls approach moral issues with a strong concern for empathy and caring in interpersonal relationships. Care and Virtues • Care ethics focuses on virtues
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ROLE OF ETHICS IN BUSINESS: Ethics Defined: Ethics are principles based on doing the right thing. They are the moral values by which an individual or business operates. In theory‚ a business or individual can act ethically and still attain ultimate success. A history of doing the right thing can be used as a selling point to heighten a person’s or organization’s reputation in the community. Not only are ethics morally valued‚ they are backed by legal repercussions for failure to act within certain
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Business ethics -Ethics derived from the Greek word ethos – which refers to the conventional customs and norms of a given culture – the term ethics can be understood in two ways: • as a traditional field of philosophical inquiry dating back to ancient Greece‚ which is concerned with values as they relate to human conduct; and • as the systematic study of norms and values that guide how people should live their lives. -Ethics is to do with what is good and bad or right and wrong. The
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