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    strategy they may exercise is investing in a stock and industry that their client comprehends. If the client has no knowledge in the industry, it remains dangerous since they are not informed on what is happening within the field. Another approach is to begin investing as early as possible; this allows the money to have additional time to multiply. The other tactic is to diversify the investments. This safeguards investors if one industry or the stock crashes; they ensure to not completely lose

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    Outsourcing in India Abstract Over the past few decades, many high-profile drug recalls, regulatory authority warnings and negative media impact have caused monetary losses and tarnishing of the image of pharmaceutical companies. Consequently, these companies have invested heavily on PV systems. For a pharmaceutical company, setting up a PV system in-house is not always cost effective and finding qualified and trained resources is a huge challenge. Thus, these companies have relied on PV outsourcing to markets

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    Pharma sector ,are finding it very hard to compete, and to make every interaction with doctors, count. Today the Pharma companies that leverage technology solutions such as ERP, CRM, mobility solutions, only have the scope of survival in future. Pharmaceutical companies are gradually realizing that they can no longer afford to be only product or market focused. They have to focus now on relationship marketing or customer

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    It wasn’t too long ago that the main security issue facing pharmaceutical companies was protecting their intellectual property from competitors who might be so unscrupulous as to try and steal information about new products. As computers became more entrenched in the pharmaceutical industry, for example, a clinical trial means having to store patient information, security became an issue as the pharmaceutical companies began storing patient data on their servers – they must comply with HIPAA, so

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    Pharmaceutical Companies Stand in the Way of Treatment Abstract This casebook concentrates on the negative effects that the pharmaceutical industry’s trade and production policies have on third world nations suffering from disease epidemics. My position is that pharmaceutical companies are not concerned with the health benefits of their drugs, but rather with the market that their drugs generate. I illustrate this notion by describing the trade policies that pharmaceutical companies influence

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    competitive landscape of the industry in which one is competing, it must understand how to formulate strategies that will create a profitable business. A business must know what it is good at to be able to effectively have a competitive advantage over other businesses within that industry. The profitability of Mylan Pharmaceuticals largely depends on their ability to discover and market new drugs. The desire to cure illness and disease is what demands pharmaceutical companies like Mylan to be empowered

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    Because pharmaceutical companies have so much power over pricing, they have started to raise prices with no motive other than more profit. In recent years, the industry has seen a steep price increase in drugs. These increases, in some cases, seem inexplicable. Regarding this is the recent example of the EpiPen, a common emergency drug used for patients with severe allergies. In the past, the EpiPen was available to patients for as low as 40 dollars. Now the price is “almost 600 dollars.” (Woodward

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    well as foreign companies. The pharmaceutical industry in India has become one of the most attractive investment places in the world, which is estimated to be worth US$20 billion, and expected to grow over about 15 percent per annum (IBEF, 2016). Moreover, the country ranks very high in the third world, regarding technology, quality and range of medicines manufactured, as stated in the book written by NPCS Board (2013). Therefore, in order to start a pharmaceutical business and be successful in India

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    Threat of new entrants is relatively high. Companies forming alliances are potential rivals. Even if earlier such company was not considered to be a threat, after merging with some research and development company or forming alliance with another pharmaceutical company it would become a rival to Eli Lilly. The threat is however weakened by significant research and development costs necessary to successfully enter the business. Eli Lilly’s focus on a relatively narrow market of sedatives and antidepressants

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    Introduction: Pfizer is an U.S.A – New York pharmaceutical and corporation company, which is manufacturer of the medicine and provider of humans and animals health's solutions provider by the medicine and it's the largest pharmaceutical Industry in the world. Pfizer History: The history of Pfizer it was founded by cousins Charles in 1849 in New York City as a manufacturer or Provider of fine chemicals and medicine. Its discovery to the Terramycin (oxytetracycline) which is in 1950 they put it on

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