Apex Pharmaceuticals Company Ltd. is a well reputed multinational company dealing in manufacturing and marketing of life saving drugs and formulations. Company's Research and Development (R & D) Department is activel

Dilemma is a situation that requires a choice between options that are or seem equally unfavourable or mutually exclusive. By definition, an ethical dilemma involves the need to choose from among two or more morally acceptable courses of action, when one choice prevents selecting the other; or, the need to choose between equally unacceptable alternatives. A dilemma could be a right vs. wrong situation in which the right would be more difficult to pursue and wrong would be more convenient. Easier dilemmas involve a 'right' versus 'wrong' answer; whereas complex ethical dilemmas involve a decision between a right and another right choice. Keeping of the fact of the case, it can be said that Mr. Ram is certainly in dilemma. Here in this case, Mr. Ram is required to choose between carrying out the development of a drug for a rare, painful and life threatening disease which afflict to only one in a million and the action of spending huge sum of shareholder's money. As one can see, both are positive and ethically right choices. As a socially responsible person, he has to think in terms of eliminating a serious but at the same time he must be careful in dealing with shareholder's money. Thus, it is a classic case of ethical dilemma.