Podcast: Dr Reddy’s MD On The Next Horizon, Owner-Managed Firms, 'Birds And Beliefs'

Dr Reddy's Laboratories' co-chairman and MD, GV Prasad, talks about his conversations with late founder Dr Anji Reddy, the company’s ‘Horizon 2’ strategy, pricing expectations for CAR-T cell therapies, the promise of the China market, how Indian owner-managed pharma firms are figuring out ways to deal with succession aspects and his new book.

Dr Reddy's co-chairman and MD, G V Prasad • Source: Dr Reddy's Laboratories

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.' chairman and managing director GV Prasad, has long helmed the company, weathering many a business storm along the way.

“It's been a roller-coaster ride and there are many phases of transformation that we went through in the last four decades,” Prasad told Scrip in wide-ranging interview as the Indian firm shifts gears to build out its future in

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