Time to get Shakespearean at big Pharma?

[JohnMack]

Source: The Health Care Blog

Late last week (July 26) Merck announced the promotion of corporate counsel Kenneth Frazier to succeed Peter Loescher as president, global human health, effectively making him the company's chief operating officer. Given Pfizer's earlier decision to make their corporate counsel, Jeffrey Kindler, the CEO there, Frazier's promotion means two Big Pharma companies within the past year have elevated lawyers to key, strategic positions. The moves in both cases indicate the unwillingness of the respective companies to cleanly break from the unsavory and dysfunctional practices of their recent past.

For more, read the whole post here.