Keeping the Workforce: the Drug Industry's Cognitive Dissonance Problem
Executive Summary
Amidst the mounting attacks on the drug industry by respected mass market publications and broadcast news, it is growing increasingly difficult for those in the industry to maintain the personal mission of "doing good" that--at least partly--attracted them to the pharmaceutical business. In the past, attractive option packages might have helped executives deal with uneasiness about some of the strategies being pursued by companies under the gun of blockbuster economics. But with stock prices low, that source of comfort has been removed--raising doubts about the industry's ability to retain its best and brightest.
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