What's your favorite blunder at Novartis in the last 10 years?

[Anonymous]

Let me start:

trying to push zelnorm in the US despite the FDA safety concerns

 

[Anonymous]

CCI

 

[Anonymous]

management

 

[Anonymous]

Kevin McKinnon. Rep to Mgr to RD to VP then back to MD(glorified RD)...the people in NJ saw what an idiot he is. Smooth talking-rhyming machine wanna be evangelical preacher. Good grief.

 

[Anonymous]

Chris Espisito and his DM's that felt they were above compliance and turned a blind eye to the practices in the field but when called on carpet hung reps out to dry.

 

[Anonymous]

Promoting HB in the NEOU to DM. Wow, she is a case study for the Harvard Business Review on managing by fear and intimidation. Good job CE in this promotion...

 

[Anonymous]

Ludwig Hanston, Les Paul, John Orloff, Darlene Jody, Marla Hockfeld ... Zelnorm, Tekturna, FANAPT!!??, Extavia, Valturna, there are just too many to choose from.

 

[Anonymous]

Let me start:

trying to push zelnorm in the US despite the FDA safety concerns

I may be going too micro here...but my favorite would be the two documented times that I received my "revised" goals AFTER the quarter was over. Both times I went from over 100% to goal to under and received feedback that I would have to work harder to meet/exceed my sales goals. Overall incentives department is a joke and their fearless leader Mike P couldn't find his ass with both hands.

 

[Anonymous]

Selling exelon was like vietnam.... We were fucked before we got to the clinics!

 

[Anonymous]

Espo, total hypocrite

 

[Anonymous]

systematically firing white people, hiring unqualified and undereducated blacks in their place.

 

[Anonymous]

Regionalization of the company with subsequent micromanagement to the point that you have to make a spread sheet of everytime you fart!! As the screws get tighter, the performance suffers. All pretense of enpowerment and input that was to be CCI is gone

 

[Anonymous]

Extavia wins this hands down. Let's spend 800 million to make 60 million. But Gilenia is the future of Novartis in making up lost Diovan revenues!

Signed,
Senior Leadership

 

[Anonymous]

Greg Schofield, Jay and his travelling pony show and TAKE ACTION FOR HEALTHY BP!!

 

[Anonymous]

mike pocza

 

[Anonymous]

sending us to Vegas for Take Action for HBP, and video taping us on a timed 14 minute presentation

 

[Anonymous]

Town Hall meetings to tell us everything was still great and Novartis is the place to be

 

[Anonymous]

having a diversity promoted to Onc 2-4 DM in S FL who was the biggest lying, back stabbing, moron u could ever work for. Real loser!!

Guess her RD MK from S GA was equally a stooge with golf terms relating to sales. Guess he lost job at WKRP as programing director Andy Travis look a like for all those who remember the show in the late 70's.

Mike get a haircut the 80's look is out even for S Georgia u redneck

 

[Anonymous]

The OP has posted this question on other company boards. A journalist perhaps?

 

[Anonymous]

Handing out Diovan Trophys to all of our top writers. Even had to do a spreadsheet to show my plan of action. Many wouldn't even accept them