If you are not a banker it’s difficult to visualize loans as a product that everyone is pressured to sell on the banking side of the transaction. This insight came up during a discussion with some friends involved in pioneering microfinance in India.
[Note: This post from October 25, 2010 was updated on May 31, 2021 for formatting issues.]
Category Archives: Biotech,Pharma & Medical
Re-thinking Medical Insurance Business as an Electricity Business- executing healthcare reform
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Drug recalls up three times in 2009- Generic OTC’s have a store brand but prescription generics are brand-less
In 2009 drug recalls are up over three times the rate in 2008. While one generic maker/re packager Advantage Dose accounts for about two and half times of the increase – it still appears that there is a 50% increase of recalls.Here’s what seems to be playing out for prescription generics. As the great recessionContinue reading “Drug recalls up three times in 2009- Generic OTC’s have a store brand but prescription generics are brand-less”
Muffin know-how is as important to bakery industry as scalable processors is to computer industry
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Understanding the business and running the software- are these some new jobs coming up?
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Jeff Immelt: Small Business tends to hang out with Big Business in the supply chain and jobs get created
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Why are great companies like Apple (iPhone4) and Glaxo (Avandia) not able to deal with post new product launch problems?
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Clinical Trial participants found easier on Facebook than Google AdWords
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“Switch” by Heath Brothers seems to be about hearts, minds and process
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BP Oil Leak and Marketing Myopia – the upstream product recall
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