Narasimhan's Culture Club On Song At Novartis

Taking over at the Swiss firm as CEO in 2018, Vas Narasimhan set about creating an "inspired, curious and unbossed organization." Two years on, he has put the spotlight on several initiatives that are up and running on a number of fronts to achieve that goal.

Vas Narasimhan
Vas Narasimhan

The appointment of Vas Narasimhan as Novartis AG’s chief executive in February 2018 was seen as a changing of the guard for the Swiss major and the pharmaceutical sector as a whole. Then aged 41, he came in looking to transform the group into a focused medicines company powered by data and digital technologies that would use machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform drug research.

To do that would require a significant shift in culture, a subject Narasimhan has returned to repeatedly in the two years since he took the helm. It is an area...

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