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During his tenure as head of Pfizer, Ed Pratt was instrumental in the creation of low-income housing around Pfizer's
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After leaving the government in 1964, Pratt joined Pfizer as controller. In 1969, he became chairman and president of Pfizer
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as a result of Pfizer's diminishing returns. In his own words "We were beginning to notice that we were losing market share because our intellectual property rights were not being respected in these countries" A member of the
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