Merck and Co. and river blindness MANUEL VELASQUEZ‚ Business Ethics. Concepts and cases 4th edt.‚ Prentice Hall‚ Upper Saddle River‚ New Jersey‚ 1998 River blindness is an agonizing disease that affects some 18 million impoverished people living in remote villages along the banks of rivers in tropical regions of Africa and Latin America. The disease is caused by a tiny parasitic worm that is passed from person to person by the bite of the black fly which breeds in river waters. The tiny worms
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Pfizer SWOT analysis Pfizer is a global pharmaceutical and consumer products company‚ which discovers‚ develops‚ manufactures‚ and markets medicines for humans and animals. The company consists of three SBU’s (Strategic Business Units): • •Health Care • •Animal Health • •Consumer Health Care The company produces the impotence treatment Viagra‚ cholesterol lowering Lipitor and‚ for high blood pressure and angina‚ Norvasc. The animal division produces treatment both for livestock and pets. The company’s
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name:- MH 1) Pfizer is a global pharmaceutical company .The company’s senior director of orgaizational effectiveness‚ jordan cohen ‚ found that the "Harvard MBA staff we hired to develop strategies and innovate were instead googling and making powerpoints ". Jordan cohen‚ top manager of the company is responsible for making decisions about the direction of the organisation and establishing policies and philosophies that affect all organisational members. So that the company will be most effective
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Questions for the Merck Case Create a decision tree for Merck. The 2 leftmost branches would identify the alternatives related to licensing Davarink (specifically license versus not to license). Next‚ if Merck decides to pursue license‚ they go into phase I which results in a success‚ or failure. Phase I success is followed by phase II where Merck has the opportunity to develop the drug to treat depression alone‚ weight loss alone‚ or both‚ or contemplate phase II failure. Finally phase
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investment can be possible. The environment investigation: Pfizer Inc. is the world’s most profitable privately funded research based biomedical organization. After its merger with Warner-Lambert in July 2000‚ Pfizer became the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. Pfizer has a valuable and resourceful R&D division‚ huge global sales‚ popular products which made this company profitable. The secret behind the success is that Pfizer follows some criteria in operation of the business. These are
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Executive Summary Merck & Company has been presented with an opportunity to invest $30 million for the purchasing rights of an obesity and high cholesterol lowering drug‚ KL-798 from Kappa Labs. Based on the expected probabilities of success through each product-development phase for this new drug‚ as well as the costs involved‚ the net present value of the project is -$1.16 million and is therefore recommended that Merck passes on the investment. Sensitivity analysis also show that adjusting
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2011). In 1978‚ Merck‚ while testing invermectin (a parasite killing drug for animals)‚ found that invermectin killed a parasite similar to the one that caused river blindness. The problem for Merck was that river blindness generally only affects people in very poor areas and there was very little chance to recoup their financial investment by selling the drug. The ethical dilemma represented by this situation is focused on what course of action Merck should take. Does Merck invest precious resources
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Presentation on: Pfizer and the Pharmaceutical Industry Fletcher Leung Analyst Investment Analysis Group February 15‚ 2002 Presentation Agenda • Industry Overview: Research Based Pharmaceuticals • Pfizer – Company Specifics – Performance – Growth Drivers • Valuation – Comparables Analysis – DCF • Recommendation February 15‚ 2002 Page 2 Investment Analysis Group 1 Industry Overview Economic •Cost Effective Demographic Sociocultural •Aging Population
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Case #1: Merck and River Blindness MGT 597: Leadership Ethics Dr. Brandon Randolph-Seng Javiaur Harmon: Winter Mini 2014 - 2015 1. Think about the definition stakeholders—any parties with a stake in the organization’s actions or performance. Who are the stakeholders in this situation? How many can you list? On what basis would you rank them in importance? The stakeholders in this situation were the employees (research scientists doing the R&D)‚ Merck‚ and the target audience which
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Pfizer SWOT Analysis Jennifer Yacovazzi MGT/521 July 15‚ 2013 Robert Balcerzak Pfizer SWOT Analysis “Pfizer is the world’s largest biopharmaceutical company. It portfolio includes human biological‚ small molecular medicine‚ vaccines and consumer products” (Market Line‚ 2013‚ p. 3). “Pfizer conducts business through five different areas: primary care‚ established products within the emerging markets‚ specialty care with oncology‚ animal health‚ and consumer health care” (Market Line‚ 2013
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