Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results

Chapter 20. CAPTURING INNOVATION POWER IN THE GENOMICS ERA

DANIEL VASELLA

Daniel Vasella is chairman, CEO, and head of the executive committee of the health care company Novartis. He previously was an attending physician at the university hospital in Bern, Switzerland. He is a member of the board of directors of Credit Suisse, the supervisory board of Siemens AG, and the international board of governors of the Peres Center of Peace. He is also a member of the board of directors of Associates of Harvard Business School and the Rockefeller University.

The twentieth century closed with high technology dramatically altering the way we live and work. Entering the twenty-first century, which promises to be the century of biology and information technology, ...