Play its HAND. Background Considered a leader in the biotechnology industry‚ Genzyme has come a long way since its inception as a supplier of basic chemicals and reagents in 1981. As a leader in the development of orphan drugs‚ Genzyme realized revenues of almost $4B in 2007. Greater than 30% of its revenue in 2007 is attributed to the sales of drugs that target orphan diseases‚ such as Cerezyme‚ a novel Genzyme drug used to treat Gaucher disease. Due to the lack of previous research on orphan
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Threat of Entry from new competitors Reaction from the existing players Reaction from the existing players can affect seriously to the potential new entrants. And that’s what exactly happening in this case. Before the starting operation of Southwest Airlines‚ three other existing players in the airlines industry had reacted severely. After the approval application from the TAC (Texas Aeronautics Commission)‚ immediately Braniff‚ Continental and Trans Texas had obtained a temporary court
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Threat of New Entries New entries to the industry threaten to limit the profitability of established competitors (Porter‚ 2008‚ p.3). One luxury that commercial casinos have is that there are significant barriers to entry‚ namely high capital requirements. Because of this‚ threats to the industry have historically been few and far between. But thanks in large part to increasing popularity and technological advancement‚ new competition in the gambling industry has emerged in the form of Native American
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Early in 1997‚ Genzyme Corporation began negotiations with Geltex Pharmaceuticals in an attempt to launch a joint venture to market Geltex’s first product‚ RenaGel. Geltex was a young biotech research company with only two products in its pipeline‚ and they didn’t have the resources necessary to launch RenaGel on their own. Genzyme‚ on the other hand‚ was a quickly growing company that experienced revenues of $518 million in 1996. They were attracted to the joint venture with Geltex because of the
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Would you make if you were Jane Barrow? Why that one? If I were Jane Barrow‚ I would suggest shale gas as the best. Since the industrial‚ electric power and residential make a large contribution for the use of natural gas‚ the stakeholder in these parts are very important. After multiattribute risk analysis‚ the chart from Exhibit 10 shows they are care about using energy produced in their own jurisdiction. From the Exhibit 3‚ with the increasing need of natural gas to satisfy consumption‚ more
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the need for social classes is essential. Conformity and individuality are very important in society. Aldous Huxley uses the lack of uniqueness‚ the dangers in group decisions‚ and the lack of innovative ideas to display how conformity is a major threat to society. Huxley uses the lack of uniqueness when he mentions the test tube babies to show that there is no individuality in the World State. To support this‚ “One egg‚ one embryo‚ one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud‚ will
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Threat of substitutes The threat of substitutes means that a product identical or similar with other product which same characteristics product we found easily. The industry is less attractive when the threat of substitutes is high. In this case‚ we need to produce different product compared to the other firm to attract consumer to buy from us. Our firm threat of substitutes is medium as we are producing the plus sizes of clothing for men and women. In this industry‚ although there are several brand
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Threat of Entry Significant economies of scale the price of laptops has come down in recent years and the prices of some printers are more expensive than others that are smaller! Part of the reason for this is that there is a different degree of technology involved in the production of some of these products and‚ in addition‚ it is not likely that they will be produced in the quantities that will allow the benefits of economies of scale to manifest themselves. With most multinational corporations
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nditions‚ in 2008‚ Best Buy Co. asked its employees toseparate from the company on voluntary basis (ecoustics‚ 2008). This strategy allowed thecompany to settle down in the market to some extent. By the end of fiscal year 2008‚ its revenueshowed remarkable stability and consistency proving the decision of cutting down work forcewas right (ecoustics‚ 2008).Corporate partnership with C P W has helped the company to perform better in the adverseconditions of the economy and markets. Early this year
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Supplemental Reading: Stereotype Threat In the article “A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance‚” Claude Steele discusses the empirical methods used to test a psychological theory called stereotype threat. Stereotype threat offers a new method for interpreting “group differences in standardized test scores‚” particularly for African-Americans taking standardized verbal tests and for women taking standardized math tests (p. 613). It states that if someone is
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