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

N2Growth Blog

With this kind of market penetration and mammoth customer need, a firm can name its price for its product – and, there’s not much a person in need of the lifesaving drug can do about it. And against that, manufacturing the product, distributing the product, enhancing the product, investing.”

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Differentiation’s Arch Enemy: Price

In the CEO Afterlife

In their minds, they weren’t gouging the consumer; they were simply ensuring their products garnered a fair price. In the heat of battle, there is a hell of an incentive to discount products for easy market share, even by the most disciplined of marketers. Behind this logic is a basic business issue.

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Why Price Fixing Continues

In the CEO Afterlife

In their minds, they weren’t gouging the consumer; they were simply ensuring their products garnered a fair price. In the heat of battle, there is a hell of an incentive to discount products for easy market share, even by the most disciplined of marketers. Behind this logic is a basic business issue.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Not only was this a shift in company focus and customer orientation, but it put high-volume tire production and sales as the only priorities. Retail stores are about more than just storefront locations.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. There are three aspects to Crisis Management and Preparedness. Thinking Through the Strategies.

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Case Study: When Tragedy Strikes Your Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The New Jersey-based children’s clothing retailer had increased its profits by 5%, and Laura had gathered everyone at headquarters for a champagne toast. The fall line, which typically accounted for 80% of T&T’s revenue, was scheduled to go into production in two weeks. The Dhaka factory had manufactured those products.