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...A favourite recent find was a bottle opener in the form of a gold ingot, a 1980s corporate gift from Swiss Bank Corporation. Open Saturday, 7.20am–4pm, year round....
...Many people criticised these scientists for selling a valuable public-purpose technology to a profit-seeking corporation....
...Mr Jimenez took on the top job in 2010 after Daniel Vasella, who helped create the Basel-based pharma group by merging two Swiss chemicals groups, Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy, stepped down as chief executive....
...Mr Vasella was the driving force at Novartis after its creation from the 1996 merger of Sandoz with Ciba-Geigy....
...He moved into industry in 1985 at Ciba-Geigy as a scientist, and then to Glaxo in 1989. He left Glaxo, where he was UK research director, to join PowderJect in 2001....
...only about Dr Vasella’s age of 57, he has already been chief executive for 14 years and held the combined role of chairman at Novartis for 11 years following its formation by the merger of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy...
...Daniel Vasella, although only 53, has become the doyen of the sector, a decade after he was named the first chief executive of Novartis, the Swiss group formed by the merger of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy, in...
...Many successful corporations employ experiential hybrids that combine two or more SEMs in order to broaden the experiential appeal. An automotive hybrid is the new Volvo C70 coupe....
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