This is a two-party negotiation between a pharmaceutical company and a government agency to decide if a new medication will be put on the reimbursement list. The pharmaceutical company has a valuable new product, the government has semi-monopolistic power over whether (or not) drugs are listed.

This is a two-party negotiation between a pharmaceutical company and a government agency to decide if a new medication will be put on the reimbursement list. The pharmaceutical company has a valuable new product, the government has semi-monopolistic power over whether (or not) drugs are listed.

This two-party negotiation is an ideal introductory negotiation role-play to raise issues of assumptions, win-win/win-lose, competition/collaboration, interests/positions, single-/multi-issue, positions/options. Two companies, SuperPharma and PharmaCaring, both want to buy 10,000 rare Oxipouco fruits, which contain different compounds.

This two-party negotiation is an ideal introductory negotiation role-play to raise issues of assumptions, win-win/win-lose, competition/collaboration, interests/positions, single-/multi-issue, positions/options. Two companies, SuperPharma and PharmaCaring, both want to buy 10,000 rare Oxipouco fruits, which contain different compounds.

This case and teaching note explore one of Singapore's early entrepreneurs and the family business empire he created. Eu Tong Sen started from humble beginnings as tin miner, and over the next 50 years built a family firm that included mining, rubber plantations, real estate and banking.