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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816986703321

Autore

Vagelos P. Roy

Titolo

Medicine, science, and Merck / / P. Roy Vagelos, Louis Galambos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-107-14270-9

1-280-43759-6

9786610437597

0-511-16545-5

0-511-16615-X

0-511-16420-3

0-511-31293-8

0-511-51167-1

0-511-16500-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

GalambosLouis

Disciplina

610/.92

Soggetti

Physicians - United States

Medical scientists - United States

Physician executives - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The making of a physician -- 2. Hot science in big government -- 3. The French alternative -- 4. The research university, American style -- 5. Turning the corner at Merck -- 6. Crisis -- 7. Blockbusters -- 8. On-the-job training -- 9. Global aspirations -- 10. The moral corporation -- 11. Getting to know the Clintons -- 12. Partners.

Sommario/riassunto

In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of America's most admired corporation - the multinational, pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., Inc. As the authors show, there was hope even for a wise-cracking kid living through the hard times of the 1930s.  Education brought out the scholar in Roy Vagelos, who left his family's small restaurant to attend the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia's Medical School, and



Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. At NIH, he mastered biochemistry; at Washington University he became a distinguished science administrator; and at Merck, he headed the pharmaceutical industry's most innovative laboratory and then became its CEO.  Throughout, he never lost touch with his family values, his intense desire to help others, or his faith in the partnership principle and the competition that makes it work.