The potential negative impacts that may arise because of customer demand, regulatory, research or development and environmental or social risks must be addressed with countermeasures quickly and efficiently while implementing strategic plans. ... In Summary, as the industry changes at a high rate, companies like Merck need strategically, efficiently, and tactically adjusts its planning annually to operate at a high-level and fast pace to do more with less, and do it better and faster without risk to the high standards and operations in research while adopting new operating model (Lippet, 2007)...

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Gekko prizes Bud Fox by demonstrating to him the rich and quick life, and Bud Fox keeps on assisting Gekko with profiting in an illicit manner. ... In summary, Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, is a great strategist with many skills characteristic of an effective leader but lacks the human skill of morality. ...

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INTRODUCTION As one of the world's leading building materials company, Hanson had taken a lot of changes and revolutions. In 1964 James Hanson and Gordon White created Hanson Trust out of the former Wiles Group. Hanson PLC went on to become one of the world's biggest companies with annual profits of more than £1.5 billion and a strategy of growth through acquisition. In the 1970s and 80s Lords Hanson and White turned Hanson into a multi-national concern with interests across the world ranging from chemical factories in the US to electricity supply in the UK and gold mines i...

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