Business Ethics and Reputation in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies

Axialent

Nowhere else in the corporate world will you find a higher purpose: Pharma and medical device companies exist to help mankind live better and longer. This higher purpose is what drives thousands of scientists, R & D departments, FDA agents, and marketing specialists in the industry to work everyday. It’s what they’ve chosen as their inspiration, where they’ve decided to spend the best hours of the best days of the best years of their lives. It’s also, unfortunately so, sometimes unconsciously forgotten by many leadership teams across the board at these corporations.
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The Financial Case for a Deeply Embedded Ethical Culture

Ethical Advocate

The pharma world often appears to be the unfortunate test tube for how ethics and compliance issues are played out in the public’s and government’s microscopic eye. Every incident seems to garner headlines.  Is it a surprise the pharmaceutical industry’s overall public standing is so low when the following type of news has been regularly broadcast in the last few years?
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