Guest Blog – Daraprim, Sovaldi, and thoughts about pricing fairness

A recent article on pricing power referenced the example of Martin Shkreli’s Turing Pharmaceutical decision to raise the price of Daraprim by 5000%. Shkreli famously purchased the rights to an older off-patent drug used to treat infection in AIDS …

On Pricing Power and Fairness

The following article is my reaction to a blog from a friend, Steve Haggett at Iron Mountain.  He responded to an article from our Patrick McCullough about some of the pricing abuses in the pharmaceutical industry. 

When was the last time you raised prices?

| Emily Macaulay |
The other day I was talking to the CEO of a small medical devices firm.  During the conversation, she let slip that she hadn’t raised her prices in 15 years! I almost had to pick my jaw up off the floor. After I got over my initial shock, I a…

Fixing the Leaky Boat

| reedholden |
Here’s the question: Is it harder to set prices or control them once they are set? Next, think about where you spend most of your time? Sorry, that was two, but each is equally important. Why?  Because if you struggle with…