Hardcover book detailing the origins and growth of the Merck company. After 100 years the company traces its beginnings as the NY branch of a German fine chemicals producer, through its evolution into its current status as the world's leading pharmaceutical company. The values provides the reader with a profile of Merck's people and an analysis of Merck's century of progress in research and development, its manufacturing, and in marketing. In the 'Visions' section, the CEO looks to the challenges the corporation is likely to face and the course it must follow to reap the benefits of new findings in biology and medicine.