At Merck, our vision is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, consumer health and animal products.
We aspire to be the best healthcare company in the world and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for tomorrow.
We have made it our mission to provide innovative, distinctive products and services that save and improve lives and satisfy customer needs, to be recognized as a great place to work, and to provide investors with a superior rate of return.
Our corporate responsibility approach is aligned with the company's mission and values and articulates how we see our responsibilities with respect to access to health, ethical and transparent business practices, environmentally sustainable operations, scientific advancement, employee wellness and value-creation for our shareholders.
At Merck, corporate responsibility is our daily commitment to tackle the world's biggest health challenges by discovering better ways to make a difference in everything we do. It is a simple promise that is embedded in our business and informs all our individual actions.
Our commitment to corporate responsibility extends to how we achieve our business goals:
- By discovering smart, sustainable ways to expand global access to effective healthcare
- By discovering environmentally sustainable ways to meet the world's health needs now and in the future
- By discovering better ways to strengthen a workplace where our employees—and our business—can thrive
- By discovering better ways to build and strengthen trusted relationships, by demonstrating the highest ethical standards and communicating with greater transparency
We recognize that successfully managing social, ethical and environmental issues involves everyone at Merck. For this reason, we established a new company-wide corporate responsibility framework and developed and refined a list of key performance indicators to measure the company's performance and progress in our areas of strategic focus.
Integrated into Merck's approach to corporate responsibility is a commitment to constructive engagement with stakeholders. We recognize that issues that matter to key stakeholders can very quickly become material issues for our shareholders. Therefore, we seek to balance our responsibilities in ways that support our fiduciary duty to generate long-term shareholder value, while also considering the needs of other stakeholders. Learn more about our stakeholder engagement process.
