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How Pfizer’s CEO wielded moral clarity to help his team do the impossible

The pharma company had to scale vaccine production from 200 million annually to 3 billion at the pandemic's peak.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla's best leadership advice: Being optimistic is better than being right

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla's best leadership advice: Being optimistic is better than being right

Albert Bourla, the boss of the $150 billion pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, admits leaders don’t win by always being right—the key is being someone your peers want to follow.

'We’ll save the world from cancer’: Inside Pfizer CEO’s $23 billion post‑COVID bet on oncology

'We’ll save the world from cancer’: Inside Pfizer CEO’s $23 billion post‑COVID bet on oncology

"The winners in life are differentiated from the losers in life because the winners never fall," Albert Bourla says. "The winners always stand up again."

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Pfizer CEO says he used ‘emotional blackmail’ to get employees to achieve impossible goals during COVID-19

Albert Bourla admitted to going to extreme lengths to “save the world” and get the vaccines out faster during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pfizer’s CEO on leading after a moonshot—and making deals with Trump

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Trump mocked by ‘Stocktwits’ X account after his claim that drug prices have fallen by ‘700%’

President boasted that drug prices were falling ‘700%’, a mathematical impossibility, as a result of his executive actions

The Independent UK

Trump announces AstraZeneca will offer discount drugs on ‘TrumpRx’ website

TrumpRx.gov, a website where Americans can buy pharmaceutical drugs under President Donald Trump’s new drug pricing plan, is set to begin operation in 2026

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Pfizer agrees to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid

Pfizer agrees to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid

Under the deal, New York-based Pfizer will charge most-favoured-nation pricing to Medicaid and guarantee that pricing on newly launched drugs, Trump said. That involves matching the lowest price offered in other developed nations.

Trump Announces Pfizer Deal He Says Will Lower Certain Drug Prices

Trump Announces Pfizer Deal He Says Will Lower Certain Drug Prices

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a deal granting Pfizer a three-year reprieve on planned tariffs as the pharmaceutical giant vowed to voluntarily lower the prices of unspecified drugs for US purchase.

International Business Times

Pfizer Becomes First Drugmaker To Join Trump's Price Cut Push

On Tuesday, Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) announced a historic agreement with the Trump Administration to ensure U.S. patients pay lower prices for their prescription medicines.

Pfizer agrees to offer discounted drugs through new federal website, Trump announces

Pfizer agrees to offer discounted drugs through new federal website, Trump announces

President also said that company would offer medications to Medicaid at ‘most favored nation’ pricing

The Guardian - US

Pfizer agrees to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid in a deal with Trump

Pfizer agrees to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid in a deal with Trump

Drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to lower drug costs and invest $70 billion in U.S. manufacturing under a deal struck with President Donald Trump's administration

The Independent UK

Donald Trump undermines his one lonely success that is apparently his one-way ticket to the Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump undermines his one lonely success that is apparently his one-way ticket to the Nobel Peace Prize

Looks like he is running out of things to destroy.

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Pfizer CEO is latest to say Trump should get Nobel Peace Prize – for something much of MAGA hates

Pfizer CEO is latest to say Trump should get Nobel Peace Prize – for something much of MAGA hates

Vaccine makers are publicly defending Covid-era achievements as the Trump administration rolls back vaccine approvals and cuts research funding

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The Independent UK

‘We will work collaboratively’: Big Pharma admits it is discussing Trump’s plan to lower drug prices

Pfizer CEO says drugmakers ‘are all ready to roll up their sleeves and execute’ as president demands more direct-to-consumer options

Pfizer posts strong earnings despite Trump’s new 'up to 250%' tariff threat

Pfizer beat earnings expectations and improved its outlook for the rest of the year, despite fresh statements from Trump announcing pharma tariffs next week.

The Independent UK

EU chief's texts to a pharma boss during pandemic were likely erased, the NYT reports

The New York Times reports that text messages between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and a pharmaceutical boss during the COVID-19 pandemic were seen by her top adviser and have likely been destroyed

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European court delivers blow to EU Commission over Von der Leyen-Pfizer texts

The European Court of Justice has upheld a transparency challenge over undisclosed text messages between EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer’s CEO during the Covid-19 vaccine negotiations.

How the love story between von der Leyen and Pfizer turned sour

From making her Europe’s vaccine saviour to becoming a skeleton in her closet: All the ebbs and flows in the love story between Ursula von der Leyen and big pharma Pfizer.

The Guardian - UK

Von der Leyen’s texts with Pfizer boss can be shared, says EU’s highest court

European court of justice says no ‘plausible explanation’ given for denying New York Times access to texts from pandemic

International Business Times

Judgment Day In EU Chief's Covid Vaccine Texts Case

A top court is to rule Wednesday on whether the EU failed the transparency test by declining to release text messages sent by Ursula von der Leyen to the head of Pfizer as the bloc tried to secure Covid vaccines.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sees ‘a scientific renaissance’ in the U.S. amid backdrop of political threats to the future of research

Also: 90% of earnings calls mention tariffs, China says there are no talks with Washington on trade.

Pfizer Exec Booed During White House Appearance as Trump Calls Pharma Head 'Great Businessman'

President Donald Trump's introduction of a Pfizer executive at the White House Wednesday was met with a roar of boos from the crowd.

Pfizer CEO Booed At White House Event

President Trump's praise of Pfizer CEO at Black History Month event sparks mixed audience reactions due to company's Covid-19 vaccine controversy.

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