ETHICAL CULTURAL ANALYSIS: Pfizer Incorporated Prepared by Benjamin Smith Submitted in partial fulfillment of Thomas Edison State College course: 2014AUG PHI-384-GS004: Ethics and the Business Professional. October 23, 2014 [pic] Introduction Pfizer is the second-largest biopharmaceutical company in the world, and largest research-based company in the world (Herper 2014). They are the producers of some of the most popular names in prescription drugs, including Lipitor®, Viagra®
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Business Research Ethics Business Research Ethics Introduction There are many cases in which business researchers practice unethical behavior. The following article, The Case of Neurontin: Skewed Research in the Service of Selling, written by Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano, DrPH, gives insight to a perfect scenario. This article discusses how Pfizer illegally urged companies to prescribe a drug for off-label uses. Due to such behavior they were fined and penalized. Many companies that sold
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I believe neither Merck nor Pfizer acted ethically or socially responsible during the Vioxx disaster. Evidence suggests that Merck might have knows about the harmful side effects of Vioxx and yet they hesitated for over 3 years to recall the drug. There was also an allegation that the company had manipulated and covered-up the results of the medical trials in their favor. An ethical thing to do would be to simultaneously recall the drug as well as inform the public about the dangers of using Vioxx
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Drug Testing in Nigeria Case Pfizer should not undergo drug testing of Trovan in Nigeria because: 1) the motives and ethics of the testing are questionable and 2) neither Nigeria, Kano Hospital nor Pfizer are prepared for the implementation of tests. If the testing of Trovan is done hastily and sloppily, a public relations disaster and lawsuits could ensue, and Pfizer could lose a potentially lucrative pharmaceutical. Pfizer deals in the business of lives, and when your business is centered
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Business Ethics across cultures The first of the two articles that will be reviewed for this paper is by Tamar Lewin of the New York Times. In August of 2001 thirty Nigerian families sued the large drug company Pfizer in the Federal Court of the United States. The families alleged that Pfizer conducted an unethical trial on their children during the meningitis epidemic of 1996 The Pfizer Company sent a research team to the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kano, Nigerian in 1996 to test an experimental
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PharmaCare’s Ethics and Social Responsability Gladys T. LEG 500 02/22/2015 PharmaCare is named among the most respectable pharmaceutical companies in the world. It is said to be an honorable and well-run organization that produces high- quality products that have not only saved millions of lives but also improve the quality of lives for millions of others. However, looking into the company mode of operation, we notice some significant discrepancies between its ethics and its commitment
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Ethics in International Business Chapter Outline OPENING CASE: Wal-Mart’s Chinese Suppliers INTRODUCTION ETHICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Employment Practices Management Focus: Making Apple’s iPod Human Rights Environmental Pollution Management Focus: Unocal in Myanmar Corruption Moral Obligations Management Focus: News Corporation in China ETHICAL DILEMMAS THE ROOTS OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR Personal Ethics
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The Merriam-Webster definition of ethics is: rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad. However, different people have different views of what is right and what is wrong, Although we do agree with most of the more serious wrong doing to be wrong (such as stealing and murder for example). However there are some people in the business world who are constantly committing unethical behavior and while knowing that is unethical they celebrate their actions because at the end
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Reporting Practices and Ethics Mia Moseley HCS/405 David Catoe August 25, 2014 According to Hicks (n.d.), “An accounting department plays an enormous role within the medical office. As the backbone of the organization, the accounting department allows the organization to operate at its fullest potential. Without an accounting department, it would be impossible for any type of organization to operate in a cost effective manner” (The Role of Accounting in the Medical Office)
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Alternative Dispute Resolutions: Arbitration Clause Saundra Stewart Kaplan University LS311-01: Business Law 1 Professor James Starcher May 1, 2012 Disputes, disagreements, differing opinions, and arguments, what do they all have in common? They all involve two persons or groups that have different ideas that are in conflict with the other. When these differences arise we as a civilized society usually are able to work out some solution that may work to the benefit of both parties. This process
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