TY - BOOK ID - 80828962 TI - The moral corporation--Merck experiences AU - Vagelos, P. Roy AU - Galambos, Louis PY - 2006 SN - 9780511616860 9780521864558 9780521683838 0511169310 9780511169311 0511168888 9780511168888 0511616864 9786610436996 6610436991 0521683831 0521864550 1280436999 9781280436994 110715667X 0511167954 0511308957 0511168454 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Pharmaceutical industry KW - Business ethics. KW - Social responsibility of business. KW - Business KW - Corporate accountability KW - Corporate responsibility KW - Corporate social responsibility KW - Corporations KW - CSR (Corporate social responsibility) KW - Industries KW - Social responsibility, Corporate KW - Social responsibility of industry KW - Business ethics KW - Issues management KW - Businesspeople KW - Commercial ethics KW - Corporate ethics KW - Corporation ethics KW - Professional ethics KW - Wealth KW - Drug industry KW - Drug trade KW - Medicine industry KW - Medicines industry KW - Prescription medicine industry KW - Chemical industry KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Social responsibility KW - Social aspects KW - Vagelos, P. Roy. KW - Merck & Co. KW - Merck and Co. KW - Sharp & Dohme KW - Management. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80828962 AB - 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 a physician and scientist, he had to learn how to run a successful business while holding to the highest principles of ethical behavior. He was not always successful. He and his co-author explain where and why he failed to achieve his goals and carefully analyze where he succeeded. ER -