A NEW CEO'S RX FOR WHAT AILS MERCK

摘要

Richard T. Clark certainly doesn't look like the face of change. Merck's newly anointed CEO, after all, is a stout, silver-haired 59-year-old replacing Raymond Gilmartin, another graying executive of similar proportions. Clark has been at Merck for the better part of 32 years. He's described as straightforward and focused, but he lacks the pizzazz Wall Street expected. Scoffs one insider: "He's not someone who walks in a room and sucks all the air out." But Clark could be exactly what the drugmaker needs. In his few short weeks on the job he's taken several opportunities to rub elbows with employees, a big departure from Gilmartin's more aloof style.