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The Mylan EpiPen Debacle: How Tremendous Greed Can Lead to the Demise of a Leader

N2Growth Blog

Through shrewd marketing efforts, failed competitors and helpful legislation (which requires its availability at public schools), Mylan has cornered the market on this allergy medication. It costs something to develop the product. According to the Washington Post, its prescriptions number in excess of 3.6

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Structure Sales Compensation Plans That Can Fire Up Your Employees

HR Digest

Examples of business objectives can include market expansion, revenue growth, cost reductions or optimization, product development, etc. Define Overall Business Objectives Define the company goals in terms of numbers as well as value additions and qualitative performance indicators that matter to the company.

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The New Agents of Market Penetrations

Harvard Business Review

This student mobility is an opportunity to accelerate technology diffusion to the developing world. Also, it is a cost-efficient path to enter new markets, especially for embedded systems and educational computer aided design firms. Using students to create new markets is not new.

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Keeping Tabs on the Competition as a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

They have a defined brand and a fairly clear picture of market penetration, differentiators, and existing products and services. It tells investors why you might succeed in this particular market or in creating a new one – and who could come nipping at your heels. Do they have a team overseas, say, in India? Use social media.

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Women Are Africa's Big Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

While Director of the Computer Center at the University of Zambia he developed the country's first ISP, which was then spun off as a campus company. Upon his return, he discovered that development of the internet infrastructure had been slow. This makes for a number of chieftainesses in a country of complexity and variety.

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Marketing designs the promotional campaign. The company holds us accountable for revenues and expects us to develop and maintain the connections to drive sales. Manufacturing produces it. Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

This low market penetration has as much to do with customer misperceptions of the likelihood of catastrophic events as it does with the prohibitively high costs and inefficient delivery models in the insurance industry. Failure to act may consign many large players to the continuing trust deficit or, worse, irrelevance.