Bullseyes and Blunders: Lessons from 100 Cases in Pharmaceutical Marketing

Bullseyes and Blunders: Lessons from 100 Cases in Pharmaceutical Marketing is a first-of-its-kind of a book. The book is an invaluable resource for the practitioners as well as the students of pharmaceutical marketing. The case studies presented in the book offer many experiential insights into how some of the world’s renowned pharmaceutical marketers built, launched, defended and managed their brands and steered them clear of competition. The Bullseyes in the book present a snapshot of these winning brands.

Studying the Blunders or failures or flops too is significant for the practitioners and students of marketing alike. Because these provide the much-needed insights into the essential, Don’ts while building and managing their brands.

Bullseyes and Blunders provides a more practical understanding of various topics that are highly relevant for the Pharma brand managers and marketing managers. These are market opportunity analysis, product positioning, product launches, life cycle management, building and defending a disease-franchise among others.

About the Author:

Subba Rao Chaganti Has a masters in business administration and over fifty-two years of experience in pharmaceutical marketing covering the whole gamut and all facets of the industry from selling to sales management, product management to heading the total marketing activity.  His experience includes domestic and international marketing, and also Indian and multinational sectors.

He also taught for a few years a course on Advertising and Brand Management at Gitam Institute of Foreign Trade (now part of Gitam University) at Visakhapatnam as an adjunct professor and also taught a class on Marketing at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) School of Management, Hyderabad as a visiting faculty.

He lives in Hyderabad and can be reached at subbarao.chaganti@gmail.com

Here is a list of his publications:

Books Published:

1. Pharmaceutical marketing in India: Concepts, Cases, Strategy
2. Game Plans for Post-Gatt Era: Action Agenda of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
3. Compete or Forfeit: Strategies for Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Pharma Product Patents Era
4. Pharmaceutical Marketing in India for Today and Tomorrow – 25th Anniversary Edition