A good company can be successful simply by providing products that people want or need. To be a great company, however, you need a clearly articulated vision, a corporate-wide mission and a set of values that drives sound decisions and strong execution.
These are ours:
Vision
With passion, purpose and partnerships, we transform scientific discoveries into advances in human healthcare.
Mission
We create new standards of care in neurology, oncology and immunology through our pioneering research, our global development, manufacturing and commercial capabilities.
Core Values
Courageous Innovation: We apply our knowledge, talent and resources to yield new insights and bold ideas. We confront challenge and uncertainty with zeal, tenacity and vision and seize opportunities to excel.
Quality, Integrity, Honesty: Our products are of the highest quality. Our personal and corporate actions are rooted in mutual trust and responsibility. We are truthful, respectful and objective in conducting business and in building relationships.
Team as a Source of Strength: Our company is strong because our employees are diverse, skillful and collaborative. We pursue our fullest potential as individual contributors, team members and team leaders.
Commitment to Those We Serve: We measure our success by how well we enable people to achieve and to thrive. Patients, caregivers, shareholders and colleagues deserve our best.
Growth, Transformation and Renewal: Consistent with our core values, we as individuals and as a corporation are dedicated to creative and constructive growth, transformation and renewal as a source of inspiration and vitality.
Stating your corporate principles is one thing; At Biogen Idec, we live these principles every day. They are the soul of the company.
Our vision, mission and values are what drove us to be one of only two drug makers to voluntarily withdraw an FDA-approved drug from the market, then bring it back to serve the best interest of patients.
They help us to buck conventional wisdom and develop a product like RITUXAN®, proving for the first time that a monoclonal antibody could help patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
They inspire us to think about product development in new ways, creating programs like bi3 — the Biogen Idec Innovation Incubator — that aim to bring discoveries to market faster.
In these and dozens of other ways, our values drive our company.
