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Big Pharma's Hidden Business Model and How Your Company Funds It

Harvard Business Review

Equating "innovative" with new molecules misses the point: to develop clinically superior new medicines. The apparent business model of Big Pharma emphasizes the billions spent at great risk to find "innovative" and "breakthrough" new molecules that must be priced high to recover research costs that have become "unsustainable."

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How Pharma Can Fix Its Reputation and Its Business at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

By that I mean that pharma companies should develop innovative treatments for pervasive unmet medical needs; avoid corruption, collusion, and other unethical marketing practices; and make sure that their products reach as many patients around the world as possible. Enhance corporate reputations.