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The Moral Corporation: Merck Experiences
P. Roy Vagelos
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Description for The Moral Corporation: Merck Experiences
Hardback. Roy Vagelos, Merck's former CEO, addresses controversial issues that turned the pharmaceutical industry into headlines. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KNDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 393.
Merck and the pharmaceutical industry are headline news today. Controversies over public safety, prices, and the ability of the industry to develop the new drugs and vaccines that society needs have been covered worldwide. Roy Vagelos, who was head of research and then CEO at Merck from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s, addresses these issues here. Success with targeted research started Merck on a path that would lead to a series of block-buster therapies that carried the firm to the top of the global industry in the 1990s and Vagelos into the top position at the company. Trained as ... Read more
Merck and the pharmaceutical industry are headline news today. Controversies over public safety, prices, and the ability of the industry to develop the new drugs and vaccines that society needs have been covered worldwide. Roy Vagelos, who was head of research and then CEO at Merck from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s, addresses these issues here. Success with targeted research started Merck on a path that would lead to a series of block-buster therapies that carried the firm to the top of the global industry in the 1990s and Vagelos into the top position at the company. Trained as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521864558
SKU
V9780521864558
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About P. Roy Vagelos
P. Roy Vagelos is retired Chairman of Merck and Co., Inc.; Chairman of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.; and Chairman of Theravance Corporation. Louis Galambos is Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and the editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. He is the coauthor of Networks of Innovation (Cambridge, 1995) and Anytime, Anywhere (Cambridge, 2002). ... Read more
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