INTRODUCTION The pharmaceutical industry is praised as one of the leading industrial sectors. The fruits of its extensive research and development are traded worldwide and have improved the length and quality of life of countless individuals. At the same time‚ however‚ the industry is criticized for its marketing and pricing practices—and even for its research and development priorities. Industry’s consistently high profits and large expenditures on research and development as well as on marketing
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Introduction: The Reliable Pharmaceutical Service is a privately held company incorporated in 1975 in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico. It provides pharmacy services to health-care delivery organizations that are too small to have their own in-house pharmacy. The Reliable pharmaceutical industry (RPS) has been doing well but with the coming of new technology and software implementation RPS has lost its effective business. Order-entry‚ billing‚ and inventory-management procedures are a hodgepodge of manual
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Knowledge Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry Introduction The study of Knowledge Management is a process that has been researched for centuries by western philosophers and traditional theorists‚ however it is only until recently that knowledge management has been the main focus for many organisations. Many have said that it was the publishing of Karl Wiig’s‚ “knowledge management foundations” (1993)‚ that sparked the huge interest in knowledge management and nearly two decades on KM is
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Pharma billionaire arrested for bribing doctors to prescribe opioid painkillers (-- removed HTML --) The pharmaceutical industry needs people to keep getting sick and they need new diseases to infect the human population. They need these things because they need to keep making money. The pharmaceutical industry is worth billions of dollars and no one wants to lose any money. That’s why‚ even though there’s an opioid crisis that kills tens of thousands of people a year and was originally declared
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Organizational Structure in the Pharmaceuticals Industry Abstract Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson are the largest and most successful pharmaceutical companies in the world today. Each company has a massive workforce and conducts business in countries all over the globe. Both companies have used a high degree of horizontal differentiation in order to manage their business units more effectively. Operating companies are grouped together by their function‚ as well as the type of product the
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Application of statistics in Pharmaceutical industry * * * Bookmark Although the advancement of medicine has prolonged and improved the life of many people over the years‚ it is important to remember that it is not an exact science. While some treatments do seem to offer a complete ’cure’ for any particular ailment universally‚ the vast majority of medicinal treatments do not. As such‚ it is important that statistics are used in medicine in order to justify the development and subsequent
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developed economies of the world. It is important to take a holistic view of the prevailing policy framework covering generic drugs globally‚ making it possible to analyze the effects of these policies on the generic pharmaceutical industry. The first pertinent area of global pharmaceutical policy is funding of research in life sciences. This pertains primarily to reference drugs rather than generic drugs. Globally‚ there is no overarching framework for the same. This is primarily done only in the
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The Global Pharmaceutical Industry: Swallowing a Bitter Pill The case describes the evolution of the pharmaceutical industry and its strategic environment. Attention is drawn to environmental pressures from regulators and payers. Key forces driving the industry are discussed‚ including addressing unmet medical needs‚ the importance of innovation and time to market‚ and globalisation. The case illustrates how an increasingly hostile environment‚ combined with a decline in R&D productivity‚ led
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Motivating high performance in pharmaceutical sales teams is a growing issue in the pharmaceutical industry. The challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry in motivating sales teams are compounded by a variety of factors that many other industries do not face including: government regulation of sales practices‚ non-direct tracking of sales results‚ and the impact of managed care on sales performance. By impacting a few key team process and compensation elements pharmaceutical companies can have a significant
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development ProText Knowledge Services Global Pharmaceutical Market: Overview 1. Indust ry Overview The pharmaceutical industry of the world develops and markets medicines prescribed for patients by medical practitioners. The U.S.‚ U.K and European pharmaceutical companies are the major ones of the industry. The total number of major pharmaceutical companies (annual revenues USD 1‚000 million and above) worldwide The global pharmaceutical industry is estimated to be about 50. This report gives
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