A Big Bet!

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Pfizer is making a $15.2 billion bet on the drug industry’s new, more elite class of generics, which are costly, complex copies of already expensive biotech drugs. Questions: 1. What are biosimilars? 2. Why are there questions about the durability of the market for these specialty drugs? 3. What is the dollar estimate of the… Read more »

People: The Number One Asset

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What radical thinking! Cashiers barred from interacting with customers until they have completed 40 hours of training? Hundreds of staffers sent on trips around the U.S. and world to become experts in their products? No mandatory retirement age? Never laying off workers? All profits reinvested in the company or shared with employees? This is the… Read more »