Their jobs and what they do is charge the highest prices they possibly can at the highest prices in the world. Their business model is greed." The health care industry in the U.S. is highly monopolized. Medical institutions, pharmaceutical companies, equipment manufacturers and medical...
At that point, there were “two paths in front of me”—one in academia and another in the industry. He decided, of course, for industry, and signed up to work for Pfizer in Kent, southeast England, the place where blockbuster erectile dysfunction drug Viagra was born and a company which...
The industry veteran took on an urgent task: to replenish the German conglomerate’s drug pipeline with external innovation so as to prepare the business for growth after the looming loss of exclusivity of its top-sellers, eye injection Eylea and heart med Xarelto. The next two years proved wh...
On the one hand, you can easily jump to conclusions and have preconceived notions, as the change agent; on the other side, the industry veterans can quickly dismiss your lack of industry knowledge as a major risk or failure factor, or it just may be a response to their...
Many self-help groups are nothing but the extended arm of the pharmaceutical industry." In Germany the industry's lobbyists "treat" politicians to incentives such as boat trips, and a number of former politicians changed over to high-ranking jobs in the pharmaceutical industry. "Big pharma and...
Although companies are waking up to the potential of retail as a lucrative channel for the pharma industry, most have yet to focus on building their retail muscle. The few that have entered this space are still taking baby steps. We believe tha...
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this script. When Pharma started lobbying for the 2017 tax law, often citing all the new jobs they would create, industry observers experienced an unpleasant déjà vu. “New jobs” was exactly what the industry promised — much more loudly — in the...
The business model of specialty pharma all started with the downfall of big pharma and the rise of the generic industry. It is no secret that the pharmaceutical industry has been grappling with diminishing R&D productivity [18]. R&D investment more than doubled over the last decade, while new...
She ended up at Boehringer after earlier jobs in business, finance and smaller pharma companies, and at the German pharma, she’s worked in contract operations, sales, market access, analytics and beyond. Because she joined the pharma industry from the business and finance world, she was thri...