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Decision Making in Present Times – Blog Post #375 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #375. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Present times are uncertain times. COVID is still a mystery in the sense that the spread, treatment and prevention has not been fully comprehended. People are becoming jittery after long lockdown and economic meltdown. In several major cities of the world, people have taken to streets demanding end to lockdown. They carry placards saying, ‘Stop Corona Hoax’. It means the governments have lost confidence of people on this count. Governments are also tired of doling out relief packages and are mired in financial difficulties. On the business side, pricing and supply chain is not yet fully st

  Pharma Market Recovery – Early Reports – Blog Post #374 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #374. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Markets generally started recovering from July. August is the first month where we have seen greater return to normalcy. What is happening and where to go from here? As expected, all (or almost all) stakeholders in all businesses are looking forward to returning to old routines. Pharma market is no exception. Doctors and Pharma companies are quickly trying to go back to old normal. Some indicators of what happened during COVID may be seen as follows. Patient/Doctor Interaction – Many doctors stopped seeing patients at all. And kept it so for about four months. Some started

  CSR for Wrong Reasons – Blog Post #373 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #373. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   This post partakes from the article ‘When CSR is Mostly for Show’ by Xiaowei Rose Luo, INSEAD Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, and Danqing Wang, HKUST Business School Assistant Professor of Management . The article was  published on  August 24, 2020 . Xiaowei Rose Luo holds a Ph.D. in sociology with a focus on organisational studies from Stanford University. Professor Luo’s research focuses on how the unique conditions in emerging economies affect corporate strategies and performance, particularly in family firms. [ Quote ] Under pressure to be good corporate citizens, p

  Learning Hubs – Blog Post #372 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #372. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Many people have set up various learning hubs in various disciplines. In fact, learning today is extremely accessible because huge resources are available at literally no cost.   I mentioned Khan Academy ( www.khanacademy.org ) in the last blog. It is such a resource that it deserves separate presentation. Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Salman Khan. The objective was to create a set of online tools that help educate students. Khan Academy produces short lessons in the form of videos. Their website includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for edu

  Learning from Life – Blog Post #371 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #371. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Life is a school and Time is the Teacher, goes the old adage. We may, for the sake of correctness, add several humans among teachers, but the fact remains that Time is the real teacher. We are born with a clean mind and learning starts from the moment we arrive. Science says that children also carry memories from pre-birth time, but the nature of memories is not clear. Learning continues throughout our lives; initial years are more formal learning while later years are more practical, informal, hands-on learning. If learning is so integral to our lives, why is such huge variation in learning of

  The Unsung Volunteers – Blog Post #370 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #370. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Life is fast and competitive; only the fittest shall survive. But what about those who are ‘differently-abled’? Surely, life may be harder for them but here and there we find great examples of people taking up the causes of such people and trying to make a difference in the world for those who may face discrimination and marginalization every day. In a struggling country like ours, where governments are unable to guarantee even basic rights of citizens; for less privileged, there is hardly any relief. Hearing Impairment, Hearing Deficit, and Deafness are various stages of progressive or cong

POST-INDEPENDENCE DAY THOUGHTS – Blog Post #369 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #369. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Independence Day came and went. We had a set of usual activities to celebrate Independence Day with ‘zeal and zest’. Some usual TV programs which were fitted into long commercials. The anchors and participants get younger and though they certainly express excitement, but they have relative lack of knowledge of Pakistan concept, the value of freedom and our responsibilities as the citizens of Pakistan. At the street level, the usual things went on. There were displays of lights, there were flags on the houses and cars and some buntings here and there. The street urchins came out with the