The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Marketing 777 MARKETING STRATEGY Professor: George S. Day, Suite 700 JMHH, Telephone: 215 898 8245 Email: dayg@wharton.upenn.edu Administrative Mary Donegan Assistant: Suite 700 JMHH Telephone: 215 898 2104 Email: mdonegan@wharton.upenn.edu Office Hours: By appointment Web Café Address: http://webcafe.wharton.upenn.edu/eRoom/mktg/777c Class Schedule: Monday and Wednesday
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competencies. The company lacked an understanding of what they considered to be socially responsible as well, or at least this is what was communicated to us through the case, which made their vision and mission even more far fetched. Our discussion of Merck was also very interesting to me. As discussed during my group’s short presentation, the company was in a very unique position and encountered a dilemma in its responsibility to assist millions of people that were in need, in several continents. I feel
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Western Drug Companies and the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa In December 1997, the government of South Africa passed a law that authorized two controversial practices. One, called parallel importing, allowed importers in South Africa to purchase drugs from the cheapest source available, regardless of whether the patent holders had given their approval or not. Thus South Africa asserted its right to import “generic versions” of drugs that are still patent protected. The government did this because
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| The Case of the Unidentified Industries-2006 | | In this case, a summary sheet which contains 14 sets of financial data from 14 different industries is provided. The task is to match 14 different firms with 14 industries by distinguishing the differences (e.g. sources of financing, profitability, the inventory turnover and the accounts receivable collection period) in the financial structures. 1. Advertising agency: the matching industry is E. As a service firm, it does not contain
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Western Drug Companies and the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa In December 1997, the government of South Africa passed a law that authorized two controversial practices. One, called parallel importing, allowed importers in South Africa to purchase drugs from the cheapest source available, regardless of whether the patent holders had given their approval or not. Thus South Africa asserted its right to import “generic versions” of drugs that are still patent protected. The government did this because
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Universidad Interamericana de Arecibo MBA Program of Business and Administration Johnson & Johnson: Company Analysis By: Rosemarie Aviles I. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to analyze the financial performance of Johnson & Johnson. The analysis includes a brief background of the company, discussion over the economic outlook and market competition, followed by its financial performance, and article that talks about the company’s portfolio and credit ranking. Comments
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9-707-441 REV: MARCH 30, 2010 TARUN KHANNA KRISHNA PALEPU CLAUDINE MADRAS Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd In Israel we have a 1970s song based on a poem from 1953 by Amir Gilboa about Theodor Herzl.1 It has a line in it about Herzl: “Suddenly a man rises in the morning, feels he is a people, and starts walking.” That is exactly what Hurvitz did. Suddenly he woke up in the morning, feels he is a giant world class company, and starts walking. No one, aside from Herzl, has accomplished anything
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EXAMINING THE CRACKS IN THE CEILING: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100 March 2013 Table of Contents FOREWORD ....................................................................................................... 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................. 2 EXAMINING THE 10 KEY INDICATORS .................................................... 7 1. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy ...................
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scientific inquiry and philosophical/psychological discussion. Models for developing and measuring spiritual intelligence are also increasingly used in corporate settings, by companies such as Nokia, Unilever, McKinsey, Shell, Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Starbucks and the Co-operative Bank. It has been identified as a key component of Leadership by bestselling business author Stephen Covey, who observes that "Spiritual intelligence is the central and most fundamental of all the intelligences
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research. One of the major assumptions and bias of the drug industry does not fall in the upper half of the best performing sectors. A majority of the companies within the drug industry are ranked as average; these are companies like GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Pfizer. Other companies that are ranked below the average industry standard include AstraZeneca, Novartis and Eli Lilly. The companies that are ranked in the top half of the best performing sectors include Actavis and Valeant. This is an important
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