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When I founded
Eastern Pharmaceuticals, I was pursuing a graduate business degree, but I had something equally important a love of building
and creating.
Fundamentally, company survival and growth are a function of creativity. Personally, I
had retail and wholesale business experience learnt from my father. I
did inventory management and account management for my father's retail
and wholesale businesses. Therefore, it was a given that my first
company was a wholesale and distributing company.
When I was growing up,
my dad was so keen that I focus on my education, but allowed me to help
with inventory management and accounting. While, my parents,
particularly my father wanted me to go to medical school, since I was
good in sciences and mathematics, my interest was in government and
commerce; not knowing where government and commerce were going to lead
me, I choose to study biochemistry with the thinking that I will end up
in the business end of science.
I loved science as a child, studied science,
and worked as a clinical biochemist before founding
Eastern Pharmaceuticals. In fact, one of my avocations is to read about scientific
advancements.
My business education was also valuable. The Master of Business Administration
program at Whitman School of Management rounded out my understanding of business, accelerating
my understanding of entrepreneurship. However, I do not
consider an MBA indispensable by any means and I tell people
that many jobs provide similar overview of business if one became
interested in the business aspect of the job.
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