Kenneth Frazier, the 64-year-old CEO of US drug giant Merck, grew up in a deeply unequal America, an experience that has shaped him profoundly.
That personal history has been hugely influential in shaping his path in life, Frazier has said, especially"My father's view was that 'Frankly, people will try to stop you,'" Frazier recounted recently, during an intimate and wide-ranging
Frazier's grandfather was born into slavery in the south, and sent his son Otis north so he wouldn't be a sharecropper. Fiercely intelligent and self-taught, Otis Frazier worked as a janitor. When Kenneth Frazier's mother died young, Otis raised their kids as a single parent in Philadelphia. Frazier went on to graduate from Harvard Law, and while working as a lawyer, got involved in a case where he helped free a black inmate from death row.
In 1992, he would get hired in-house at Merck, and was later tapped by the the company's then-CEO to work in different departments of the business.
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