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Life Through Discovery: In Debate with Jacques Marseille
Major achievements often hinge on the chance convergence of unique circumstances, as is splendidly illustrated by the dramatic growth, after humble beginnings in France, of the leading independent drug company Servier. For this industrial saga to happen and develop the way it has, the intuition, flair, and daring of a young doctor, Jacques Servier, had to coincide with the intellectual and industrial awakening that encompassed the health sector in the mid-1950s.
For Jacques Servier, inventing antidiabetics and antihypertensives meant staking his fledgling company on the growth of the French population's concern for its well-being. Setting up satellite companies in the United Kingdom, North America, and former Communist bloc meant banking on the ability of French expertise to cater for the requirements of any kind of country in the world. Heading, from Paris, a group that today employs more than 20.000 staff across the planet meant realizing, long before it dawned on the rest of us, that globalization far from being anathema, was a magnificent opportunity.
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