underdog‚ to one that can truly join the ranks of the fastest growing economies in the region. Bangladesh has three key attractions for global investors and multinationals: a large base of low-cost labour‚ a large domestic market of 150mn people‚ and nearly 3bn people in the Asian region that it has market access to. The aim of this paper is to provide global investors with an outline on the challenges and prospects for the Bangladesh economy as well as investment opportunities. The fact that
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RFID in Pharmaceutical Industry In 2004‚ US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has called for the implementation of RFID technology to track the distribution of prescription drugs in order to protect the medical supply chain from counterfeit drugs by 2007. Initially‚ California State Board of Pharmacy has mandated RFID technology but later extended implementation date until 2015. In 2007‚ Kalorama Information predicted in a report that market for RFID solutions in pharmaceutical industry would
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Jennifer Ambert Prof Weren Fall 12’ Tuesday 6p-8:40p MGT4600-61 Pfizer Case Study 1. Why has the pharmaceutical industry been so successful historically? The pharmaceutical industry has been such a successful industry for numerous reasons: • Patent protection is considered to be an incentive for investing‚ and also creates customer loyalty. • Generic brands have been profitable and cost efficient for buyers. This simply means that suppliers don’t need to offer a particular name brand;
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Merck‚ being on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world today‚ came from a meek beginning and still encounters many problems today while trying to maintain a lead amongst its competition. While being looked at as a research and development driven company‚ Merck now has to go beyond R&D to stay competitive in the pharmaceutical industry. Attracting talent to work for the company has never been a problem for Merck‚ but the bigger question was whether or not this talent would be able
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Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Industry By Sarker Imran‚ RRU‚ BC‚ Canada | | There are several sectors on which Bangladesh can be proud of and undoubtedly the pharmaceutical sector is one of these sectors‚ rather it is the sector‚ which is the second-largest contributor to the government exchequer. There are about 231 companies in this sector and the approximate total market size is about Taka 76‚500 million per year of which about 97% of the total requirement of medicines is created by the
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Questions 1 through 7 1. On balance‚ do you think Merck is an ethical and socially responsible company? Why or why not? How about Pfizer? In my opinion‚ Merck is not an ethical and socially responsible company with introducing Vioxx into pharmaceutical market. Before the Vioxx approval by FDA‚ scientists from University of Pennsylvania found that the drug could bring some serious results such as cardiovascular‚ and there were many serious cardiovascular problems during testing on patients. However
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Ethics in the Pharmaceutical Industry The pharmaceutical industry started in the middle Ages‚ 18th AD in Baghdad in 754 by an Arabian. Until the early 70’s the industry grew at a small pace. In the 1970’s business began to boom and competition began to upsurge. In the 1990’s these industries and companies became more aggressive with their marketing strategies. In ’97 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration brought new rules and regulations concerning the marketing area and it required companies to
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multiproduct strategy is Novartis following? Explain. Novartis acquisition in eye care company Alcon Inc. is an example of Related Diversification Multiproduct Strategy due to the fact that Novartis and Alcon both perform their business in health care industry. In addition‚ Novartis prescription drug make up 60% of the total sales indicate that company is operating in moderate to high level of diversification. The acquisition of Alcon Inc. establishes a related link between Novartis prescription
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Major firms of the world pharmaceutical industry Pharmaceutical industry is characterized by high level of concentration. There are about dozen of multinational companies that dominate in industry. Most of companies are not widely diversified and more than 50% of revenues come from sales of pharmaceutical products. There are few companies in industry that have other large sources of income‚ for example Johnson & Johnson. The pharmaceutical industry has two distinct functions:
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Barney and Hesterly (2006)‚ describe the VRIO framework as a good tool to examine the internal environment of a firm. They state that VRIO “stands for four questions one must ask about a resource or capability to determine its competitive potential: 1. The Question of Value: Does a resource enable a firm to exploit an environmental opportunity‚ and/or neutralize an environmental threat? 2. The Question of Rarity: Is a resource currently controlled by only a small number of competing firms
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