How is “social good” part of Camardas corporate values?
Our beliefs in this regard are well-stated by this quote from George Merke II, whose management drove the Merke company to greatness. Despite its recent trouble, Merck has throughout its long history been one of the most visionary and altruistic of pharmaceutical firms. George said, in 1950: “I want to…express the principles which we in our company have endeavored to live up to…Here is how it sums up…We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we remembered it, the larger they have been.” Henry Ford said the same thing in a different way. At a time when Ford was awash in demand it could not fill, and could have raised prices and profits to nearly anything it liked, Henry chose to cut prices, and was accused by no less than the Wall Street Journal of “economic blunders if not crimes” and injecting “
