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Otsuka: Seeking The Ideal Formulation
Of Ethics & Compliance
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Pharmaceutical Business, a part of the global ously, the organization’s ethics training included
Otsuka Pharmaceutical group. “Each and a two-hour digital course that staff completed
every one of our people plays an important every year. “Honestly, it was brutal,” she says.
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exhibit the highest standards both of ethics and materials where needed, as a less overwhelm- JENNIFER MCGEE, ESQ.
compliance throughout the enterprise.” ing and more compelling and customized &KLHI &RPSOLDQFH 2IŻFHU
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everyone’s business, but today efforts are led shorter, more frequent training “doses” is prov-
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cer. “Any effective compliance program must Though proud of their company’s com-
prevent, detect and deter misconduct,” says pliance-minded culture and controls, both
McGee. But compliance-focused checks and Nath and McGee believe there’s always
balances must in turn be supported by an URRP IRU LPSURYHPHQWŔDQG WKH\ŖOO HPEUDFH
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dose of innovation. To that end, McGee works good solid foundation,” says Nath. “But we
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training, and even its supplier-focused ethics
and compliance programs, by engaging and
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4 | ETHICS & COMPLIANCE
