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Medicine Man
When Pfizer's board chose a new CEO last summer, it passed over two 30-year Pfizer veterans to pick vice chairman and general counsel Jeff Kindler, who joined the company in 2002 after stints at General Electric and McDonald's. In the latest in his series of interviews as part of the NEWSWEEK-Kaplan M.B.A. program, NEWSWEEK Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Richard M. Smith spoke with Kindler about reinvigorating Pfizer.
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