EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Statement of the Problem Merck & Co.‚ Inc.‚ a leading pharmaceutical company‚ faces the threat of the patents of its most popular drugs expiring in 2002. The only way to counter the loss of sales from these drugs going off patent is to develop new drugs in order to refresh the company’s portfolio. LAB Pharmaceuticals‚ a small pharmaceutical company who specializes in the treatment of neurological disorders‚ has approached Merck with the opportunity to license Davanrik‚ a new
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research scientist working for Merck and Company‚ discovered evidence that one of the company’s drugs might kill the parasite that causes river blindness. He then decided to request permission to research this new finding. The mangers for the company noticed that it would take enormous amount of funding and time to develop this new vaccine. This new product could be really hard to market and who was going to actually buy it; it could also damaged the market share that Merck currently had by selling
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Merck (MRK) experienced only minute changes over the period that I held onto it. During this time‚ Merck experienced both positives and negatives‚ and these different experiences helped to balance the value of the company’s stock. At the beginning of the year‚ Merck successfully “acquired IOmet‚” a company that produces “innovative medicines for the treatment of cancer.” With this new subsidiary‚ Merck will most likely experience an increase in profits
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Harvard Case Study Analysis What is an ANALYSIS? analysis Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural analy·ses \- s z\ Etymology: New Latin‚ from Greek‚ from analyein to dissolve (from ana- + lyein to loosen‚ dissolve) + -sis -1 : separation or breaking up of a whole into its fundamental elements or component parts 2 a : a detailed examination of anything complex (as a novel‚ an organization‚ a race) made in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features : a thorough study
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Background Sharp Healthcare is a prestigious non-profit integrated health care delivery system that provides acute care hospitals. Share Healthcare has three specialist hospitals and has two medical groups that are affiliated to manage healthcare plans. Sharp Healthcare has around 2‚600 physicians and other 1‚000 affiliated medical groups to provide medical services to its customers. Share Healthcare has dedicated list of medical professionals to manage the elderly care since the elderly people require
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Harvard Business Case Analysis How would you categorize Kearney’s commitment to the company? How might you change or maintain this commitment? Eugene Kearney is very committed to Old Colony Associates (OCA). Kearney is committed in that he has been with the company for 13 years‚ loves going to work every day and aspires to maintain a higher level management position. However‚ he clearly needs to make improvements to his current level of commitment to OCA. Kearney needs to realize that commitment
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Ameritrade – case study Executive Summary Ameritrade provides online brokerage services and operates an Internet-based financial management services business. 90% of the company’s revenues are from the provision of discount brokerage services. The company’s objective is to improve its competitive position in deep-discount brokerage. In order to achieve this objective‚ the company must grow its customer base‚ requiring an investment of $100 million to upgrade its technological capabilities as well
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| CASE STUDY – DECISIONS‚ DECISIONS | MODULE 5 | | | Austin Lynch | | | 1. Use the decision-making model (page 196) presented in the chapter to map the decisions being made in these situations. Identify how‚ where‚ and why different decisions might be made. The following explanation is structured based on the decision making model: Define the problem (A)‚ Analyze Alternatives (B)‚ Make a Choice (C)‚ Take Action (D)‚ Evaluate Result (E). For each of the steps in the decision-making
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My grandmother‚ Ernestine Sharp‚ was more than prepared for Hurricane Katrina. She stated that we already had supplies‚ resources‚ and gas. She picked the safest spot in the house we had and brought my sister here to make sure that she would be safe as well. My grandmother knew what needed to be done as far as keeping us alive. One might think that we were probably better off than most. My grandfather‚ her husband‚ and my father died only a short while before Katrina. Loss was nothing new to us;
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What did you find impressive about the way Karcher handled the process? (i.e. the things that would work for your company) It is clear from the case study that one of the benefits of Karcher’s approach was that it sparked his imagination and motivated him to look for ideas and invent new features for the Presenter. His method gave him a new sense of inclusion in the product development. Listening to the customer gave him an awareness that the engineer’s personal tastes is not necessarily what
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