Posted on 07/10/2006 1:39:16 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
Good luck! They're too sanctimonious and smug to even consider the possibility that they're wrong.
Many people need to rely on fairy tales to explain things they don't understand. That's fine, I just wish they'd spare me the insincere "pity" because I call bullsh!t.
Oh, a B-school type....
By deliver, I do not mean to the customer. Deliver meant that the research resulted in a product.... that was readily apparent, but its clear you missed it.
Having worked for and with some pharms, I can tell you their "long term strategy" does not reach anywhere near far enough out for a 30+ year timeframe for results. What they call "long term" typically means some results are delivered in the 10-15 year time frame.
They are generally far more interested in a 10 year or less development for some treatment drug, for say, arthritis, than in doing difficult research that cures anything. Those sorts of things they generally leave to research institutions.
You're seriously confusing your b-school texts with the real world. While directors do tend to try to position the company to be around in 25 to 50 years, they definitely do not make business plans for products more than 10-15 years out. If you think otherwise, well.....
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