Category Archives: Corporate Responsibility

Five Compliance Questions to Ask Yourself, from the DOJ

By Ben Comer | Published: January 31, 2013
At CBI’s 10th Annual Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, deputy assistant attorney general, consumer protection branch, civil division, at the US Department of Justice, said being compliant means understanding people, and their motivations. Frimpong said non-compliance boils down to a failure of individuals, and offered five questions for chief compliance officers to ask themselves [...]
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Compliance and Legal Not Always Eye-to-Eye

By Ben Comer | Published: December 19, 2012
As the role and stature of the compliance officer grows, legacy senior management structures and hierarchies can accidentally pit lawyers against one another. What is strictly legal in the context of sales and marketing practices, working with government officials in global markets, and running and reporting on clinical programs, may not always be the [...]
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Pharma's Reputation: A Boost in the US, but China Strikes a Sour Note

By Clark Herman | Published: November 30, 2012
The pharmaceutical industry’s global reputation is on the mend, even if some countries – notably China – are more hostile, according to the latest Ipsos Reputation Snapshot for the Pharmaceutical Sector, from the Ipsos Global Reputation Centre. Since the last Ipsos survey in 2008, pharma’s reputation has improved significantly in the US, more so than in [...]
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Video: Should Pharmacies Be Held to the Same FDA Standards?

By Reid Paul | Published: October 10, 2012
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Measuring Responsibility in Big Pharma

By Guest Blogger | Published: September 7, 2012
Measuring Responsibility in Big Pharma If you can’t measure it, the saying goes, it doesn’t count.  But what if you’re measuring the wrong things? The Access to Medicines Index (www.accesstomedicineindex.org) is an attempt to measure and compare the corporate social responsibility of both innovator (20) and generics (7) companies based on a number of different (and often [...]
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