Merck Ethics Study In developing a drug to combat river blindness‚ pharmaceutical company Merck discovered an opportunity to treat millions of affected peoples around the world that probably would never see commercial use. The drug in development‚ ivermectin‚ was unaffordable to the primary victims of river blindness‚ Third World peoples. Thus‚ Dr. Vagelos‚ the head of research at the time‚ treaded upon a ethical quagmire; he could either choose to scrap the drug and its further research or
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Blanchard Importing and Distributing Co.‚ Inc Question 1: EOQ/ROP Calculations Multi period Inventory System: Fixed-Order Quantity Model (EOQ/ROP) Assumptions: Demand for products is constant‚ however safety stock added as precaution to stock outs. Probability of not stocking out is 95% Lead time is constant Price per unit is constant Inventory holding cost is based on average inventory and storage costs for safety stock Setup costs are constant All demands for product will be satisfied
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heart attacks f) Merck blamed naproxen for skewing the results against Vioxx 3) New England Journal of Medicine Omission g) Merck omits three heart attacks from article submission h) Inclusion of omitted data caused a significantly greater result 4) FDA Reaction i) Letter regarding downplay of risks j) Addition of warning label to Vioxx k) Additional study results 5) Approve Study l) Results with placebo group cause Merck to recall drug
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1. How has Merck been able to achieve substantial returns to capital given the large costs and lengthy time to develop drugs? Merck had a 14% increase in sales between 1997 and 1998 and 22% increase in sales from 1998 – 1999‚ and a 13% annual increase in earnings over the same period. Merck’s business strategy consists of two parts: (1) developing and marketing new drugs through internal research‚ and (2) developing partnerships with smaller biotechnology companies. Since 1995‚ Merck had launched
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Analysis on Merck: Conflict and change Assessment: Merck is one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world today. Although encountered with success‚ it still faces many problems today while trying to be the market leader competing against its competition. While being research and development driven company‚ Merck now has to go beyond R&D to stay competitive in the pharmaceutical industry. The main issue that seems to come
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Pharmaceuticals: Merck Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology Hiroshi Amari Working Paper No. 161 Working Paper Series Center on Japanese Economy and Business Columbia Business School December 1998 Columbia-Yale Project: Use of Software to Achieve Competitive Advantage PHARMACEUTICALS: MERCK Sustaining Long-term Advantage Through Information Technology Prepared by Hiroshi Amari Research Associate‚ Yale University William V. Rapp and Hugh T. Patrick Co-principal
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TO: Dr. Roy Vagelos‚ Chairman and CEO Merck Corporation. January‚ 1991. The decision to move forward with the program to donate the new drug Mectizan on a large scale to the affected population in the Third World needs to be systematically analyzed. There are two especially important angles from which this decision needs to be considered. The first concern that needs to be taken into account is that of the stockholders and investors in this company‚ whose interests you are ultimately charged with
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c. Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the long-term senior unsecured rating of AZN from A1 to Aa2 in 2007. Assess any potential association between this downgrade and AZN’s arrangements with Merck. Paris‚ July 30‚ 2007 -- Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the long-term senior unsecured ratings of AstraZeneca plc and its guaranteed subsidiary to A1 from Aa2. This downgrade followed the announcement of AstraZeneca’s acquisition of MedImmune for a total consideration of more than US$15 billion
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Merck Acquisition of Medco Case Study John X Devry University – Keller Graduate School of Management Finance 561 Professor May 22‚ 2011 Table of Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………p.g. 3 Company backgrounds……………………………………………………….………………p.g. 3 Merck & Co.‚ Inc. ………………………………………..…………………….…....p.g. 3 Medco Containment Services Inc. ............................……..…………………………p.g. 4 Reasons for Mergers…………………………………………………………………………p.g. 5 Economies of Scale………………………………………………………………….
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