Research Question: To what extent does the pharmaceutical company Mylan have a corporate social responsibility to their customers when pricing EpiPen’s?
Section 1: Introduction
Sub-topic 1: What is my research question
Sub-topic 2: What is the relevance of my question
Sub-topic 3: Link to real life
Section 2: How Medicine Prices Are Set
Sub-topic 4: Why medicine prices are so high?
Source: Bad Pharma chapter 2 "Where do new drugs come from?"
Sub-topic 5: How pharmaceutical companies define the price of their medicine
Sub-topic 6: The role of Insurance companies in Health Industry
Section 3: How Do These Prices Effect Customers
Sub-topic 7: The negative impacts
Sub-topic 8: Research findings and supporting data of these prices
Section 4: Corporate Social Responsibility
Sub-topic 9: What is it, how it works?
Sub-topic 10: What aspects of CSR cause limitations?
Sub-topic 11: Does CSR negatively affect profitability?
Section 5: Mylan
Sub-topic 10: Mylan and their business practices
Sub-topic 11: Other medicines and their prices
Section 6: EpiPen
Sub-topic 12: The importance of EpiPen
Sub-topic 13: History of its prices
Sub-topic 14: Break-even chart comparisons
- Compare different prices and find their break-even point
Sub-topic 15: Profitability ratios
- Compare different years and their profitabilities
Section 7: Conclusion
Sub-topic 16: Summary of the findings
Sub-topic 17: Implications to the real world