3 The Novartis Company 3 1) Novartis’ presentation 3 a) Novartis in fact 3 b) Novartis’ CEO: Joseph Jimenez 4 c) Novartis’ chairman of the Board of Directors: Daniel Vasella 4 2) Novartis’ history and cultural background 4 3) Novartis’ industry: portfolio and mission 5 a) Pharmaceuticals 6 b) Alcon 6 c) Sandoz 6 d) Consumer health 6 e) Vaccines and Diagnostics 7 4) The Novartis’ intercultural characteristics 7 5) The intercultural context of Novartis 7 a)
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HBS Project: Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup’s Loan Portfolio Banaphol Ariyasantichai‚ Ryan Stankiewicz‚ James Freisinger‚ Brian James Financial Markets and Institutions (F517) Professor Xing Lu‚ Ph.D. April 23‚ 2015 Blackstone and The Sale of Citigroup’s Loan Portfolio In the second half of 2007‚ the banking industry and financial market showed signs of considerable stress by raising the default rate of mortgage and the decline in the value of residential mortgage-backed
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3217 DECEMBER 9‚ 2008 WILLIAM E. BRUNS SHARON M. BRUNS SUSAN HARMELING Merrimack Tractors and Mowers‚ Inc.: LIFO or FIFO? Ricardo “Rick” Martino‚ president and chief operating officer of Merrimack Tractors and Mowers‚ Inc.‚ of Nashua‚ New Hampshire‚ felt that his job had grown much more complicated during 2007 and 2008. Merrimack was a major regional manufacturer and seller of large commercial grass mowers based on a design developed by his grandfather in the years after World War II
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Financial Analysis Eli Lilly & Company 2013 Annual Report Group Group 22 Ibrahim Ibrahim Al-Oraifi Al-Oraifi Dheya Dheya Al-Shehabiyah Al-Shehabiyah Namir Namir Al-Bassam Al-Bassam Happy Happy New New Year‚ Year‚ 2015 2015 Company Confidential © 2013 Eli Lilly and Company INTRODUCTION Founded in1876 by Col. Eli Lilly Headquarters in Indianapolis‚ Indiana The first company to mass-produce penicillin The world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of psychiatric medications • Products marketed
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S03 - RightNow Technologies HBS 9-805-032 1. Evaluate the startup of RightNow Technologies in light of: (a) Kawasaki‟s “top five things an entrepreneur must accomplish”; and (b) the concepts of the “Lean Startup” as outlined in the articles by Blank (hypothesis testing‚ experimentation‚ customer feedback‚ iterative design and agile development) and Eisenmann et al (managing uncertainty: minimum viable products‚ staging‚ and transferring risk to partners). Looking back from the perspective of
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Table of Contents 1. Description of the Pharmaceutical sector In the year 2004‚ the global economy experienced a momentum. After the dot.com bubble and the 9/11 terrorist attacks‚ the economy slowed down‚ especially in the USA. The American economy‚ which was the greatest market for the pharmaceutical industry‚ suffered an economic recession from 2001 to 2003. However‚ in 2004 the tax cuts and the lower interest rates stimulated a robust expansion in that country. Particularly
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Entrepreneurial Finance Philippe Gregoire Louvain School of Management – Université catholique de Louvain Reference book : Entrepreneurial finance‚ a casebook. Paul A. Gompers and William A. Sahlman. John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. 2002 1 Entrepreneurial finance Project assessment (POCD) Funding (amount‚ firm’s value‚ best partner) Deal (ownership / control / incentives) Exit (IPO) Project Assessment • 4 critical success factors for entrepreneurial ventures People Opportunity
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Antitrust Practices and Market Power Introduction The purpose of this paper is to look into a case of antitrust behavior being investigated involving Johnson and Johnson and Novartis AG‚ and to analyze and discuss the various antitrust practices that the organizations involved are accused of utilizing. Its purpose is also to discuss how the practices being deployed in this scenario can help any of the organizations to secure market power‚ which is defined by the ability of a firm to
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Technologies is a software company that established by Steve Papa on September 4th 2001. In the case‚ the company is currently looking for a Series C round funding to reduce the expected pre-money valuation multiple times because of the NASDAQ had fallen. In the end‚ the company got a rough pre-money valuation of $25M. At this time‚ there are two different term sheets that each of them contains some pros and cons putting in front of Papa to let him choose. Overall‚ Papa should choose the first term sheet
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Introduction After years as a teacher and principal frustrated by the inability to effectively track school and student progress‚ Stacey Boyd and HBS classmate Mandy Lee founded Project Achieve‚ an information management system for schools. In a quickly changing industry with fast-moving competitors‚ Project Achieve aimed to use leading-edge technology to reduce the workload of teachers and administrators while simultaneously keeping parents and students aware of performance. In an attempt to
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