Leadership and Ethics. Management Research Paper Essay

***Romano said to look into Merck’s issues with Vioxx….I searched “Merck Vioxx problems with profitability” and first thing that came up was about Merck knowing if Vioxx was deadly -can look into this as a source to compare/contrast to when the company chose to go the profitable route rather than ethical. Negative Accountants Wasting resources Bottomline Government? Pet business effects Offered for free? Could be copied Onchocerciasis https://www(dot)cdc(dot)gov/parasites/onchocerciasis/index.html https://www(dot)who(dot)int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/onchocerciasis Introduction Madie ● Key Issues: ○ How will it affect massive sales/profits of the pet medicine? ○ Will this give others the chance to make the product for the black market ○ Difficulties of reaching remote areas ○ Feasibility of providing treatment ○ Lack of resources to distribute medicine and the costs that come with it ○ Competing health priorities: more profitable opportunities to go after? ○ Treatment programs will face distribution, logistical, and technical issues of drug importation regulations and customs duties….this will be a lot to deal with financially and time consuming ○ Why can’t the government do something instead of us Background TYLER - Onchocerciasis, commonly known as “river blindness”, is caused by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. Evaluation Lupe and Neil - Outline of pieces of case study that are focused on in the case study. - People affected by these diseases aren’t able to afford it at the price. - It would still be impossible to get these drugs to most of the people because of their location. - If this drug has intense negative side effects, the sales for animals will decrease immensely. - Evaluate those pieces to determine the negativity of these. - - State why these are negative and will not work well. Solution MITCHELL and Zihao - Negative effect on government - How much treatment costs - It is transmitted to humans through exposure to repeated bites of infected blackflies of the genus Simulium - https://www(dot)ncbi(dot)nlm(dot)nih(dot)gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567329/ (costs) - Vector control (heli spraying) bad for enviorment - During the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP) era of the 1970s, it was estimated that onchocerciasis in western Africa alone caused an economic cost of $30 million annually (more than $135 million in 2015 dollars). (https://www(dot)neglecteddiseases(dot)gov/usaid-target-diseases/onchocerciasis) Recommendations HARRY