💊 Japan’s pharma father
Haruo Naito has led the mid-sized Japanese drugmaker Eisai into the global top tier.
👉🏻 Haruo Naito took over Eisai in 1988, at a time when the company was far from the world’s leaders.
Today it ranks among the global top 20 and generates more than half of its revenue outside Japan.
His guiding idea:
Employees should spend time with patients before they start researching a disease.
With this mindset, he drove breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s research and oncology and prioritized access to medicines in developing and emerging countries over traditional business logic.
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