The Great City of Calicut Located on the Malabar (southwestern) Coast of India was its port city of Calicut. Calicut‚ Kozhikode‚ was the capitol of a state which served as an important‚ if not the most important‚ state in the region in which it lay. Although Calicut lay on the coast‚ there was no place along its shore deep enough for ships to anchor. Still‚ as early as the fourteenth century‚ Calicut conducted a considerable amount of trade. According to the primary sources of Ibn Battuta‚ Ma Huan
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Merck case analysis Follow this format‚ provide *brief* answers. 1. External (use PESTEL framework) - What are Merck’s opportunities and threats? 2. Internal (use VRIO framework)- what are Merck’s strengths & weaknesses? 3. What is Merck’s performance trend? 4. What strategic actions can Merck take to gain and sustain a competitive advantage in the pharmaceutical industry and why? 1. Merck’s opportunities and threats PESTEL FRAMEWORK - Threats A lot of competition from piers Expiring patents
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Introduction and backgrounds In the world‚ there are a lot of monopolies of necessities situations existing. Among them‚ the most important and serious one is the monopolies for life saving drugs. People who have rare diseases have had not much research attention‚ it is because their numbers are small and the supply and demand market for drugs to treatment is also small. A rare disease occurs in less than 200‚000 individuals in the United States‚ or less than 5 per 10‚000 individuals in the European
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Name: ______________________________________________________________________ Age of Exploration DBQ Essay This question is based on the accompanying documents. The question is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents. Some of these documents have been edited for the purposes of this question. As you analyze the documents‚ take into account the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented in the document. Historical Context: The Age of Exploration
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Tutorial 2: The Concept of Separate Legal Personality 1. State the legal principle in company law established by the case Saloman v Saloman. What do you think? Do you think that the decision would be the same today? 2. ‘The Salomon decision was a scandalous one which unleashed a tidal wave of irresponsibility into the business community.’ Discuss. 3. When does a company become a separate legal entity? 4. What is the legal effect of incorporation of a company? 5. . Explain the significance
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The Age of Exploration The Age of Exploration was a time that brought two worlds together. This action caused changes. The Age of Exploration was a revolution because the Europeans wanted to find new trade routes due to their desire for Gold‚ Glory‚ and God. This inspired global cultural diffusion to disperse. One example of the Age of Exploration was trade. According to Document 3‚ Muslims were getting at the money because they were desired to find new trade routes to Asia. In other
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who started his voyage in Spain and was the first explorer to circumnavigate‚ meaning to travel all the around the world. He was killed on April 27‚ 1521 by the natives on the island of Cebu in the Philippines while many of his own men stayed on the boat despite knowing their captain was in trouble. The question being asked was whether or not this captain was worth defending. This question could be answered either way but in this essay we are going to
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CASE: 1 THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Managers in pharmaceutical firms face a dynamic and challenging task environment that creates both opportunities and threats. Demand for pharmaceuticals is strong and has been growing steadily for decades. Between 1990 and 2005 there was a 12.5 percent annual increase in spending on prescription drugs in United States. The strong growth was driven by demographics. As people grow older they tend to consume more prescription medicines‚ and the population
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1. How does Genzyme’s focus on orphan drugs affect the degree of competition it faces? How does it affect the bargaining power of customers? For a drug to qualify as an ‘orphan drug’‚ a disease must only afflict less than 200‚000 people worldwide. From this we can understand that Genzyme’s target market is a very small niche and consequently there is very little competition. Big pharmaceuticals primarily focus their resources on ‘blockbuster’ drugs because there is a large market to target. Since
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Age of Exploration There are many causes and motivations that led to the age of exploration‚ one of many include; the crusades‚ crusades are wars between Muslims and Christians lasted from the 1000’s to the 1200’s. The interactions between Muslims and Christians led the Europeans to spread Christianity and stop the spread of Islam. Other than that‚ the desire for new sources of wealth and spices and luxurious goods‚ and the advances in sailing technology influenced the age of European Exploration
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