2012 Scrip 100 Preview: Pipeline dreams - an interview with Joe Jimenez
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
As we sit in Novartis’s Basel headquarters on a sunny October afternoon, discussing the pharmaceutical company’s growth strategy in the coming years, Joe Jimenez conducts himself as you would imagine the CEO of a major pharma company to appear: prepared, confident and direct.
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