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How Does Medicine Apply to Business?
Management 250 was designed and intended to help its students better understand how to manage and make decisions within a company. When people think of a 'business', Merrill Lynch, A.G. Edwards, Microsoft, and even Amazon.com are many of the businesses that come to mind. Although these are many extremely profitable and successful companies, everyone overlooks one of the fastest growing industries in the world: the pharmaceutical industry (over 200 billion dollars per year). The increasing costs of medicine and health care are attracting many new pharmaceutical companies to arise. With about 300 million people in America and growing, how do these businesses find an appropriate balance between business and medicine? If they focus too much on the business, the medical industry will go down the tubes and millions of lives could be lost. But if they focus too much on finding a cure, there would be no way keep their business running. This is why it is so important for these medical companies to be run efficiently and in an organized fashion, because not only are people's jobs on the line, but lives are on the line as well.