Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000885725-25-000011
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Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 technologies generate favorable clinical outcomes, value and cost efficiency, while also being less invasive than alternatives, the resources necessary to demonstrate value to our customers, patients, payers and other stakeholders are significant and new therapies may take significantly longer periods of time to gain widespread adoption.

Implementation of cost containment initiatives and health care reforms in significant markets such as the U.S., China, Australia, and other markets may limit the price of, or the level at which reimbursement is provided for, our products or procedures using our products, which in turn may make it less likely that a hospital or physician will select our products to treat patients.

Environmental Regulation and Management

We are subject to various environmental laws, directives and regulations both in the U.S. and abroad. Our operations involve the use of substances regulated under environmental laws, primarily in manufacturing and sterilization processes. We are focused on continuous improvement in environmental metrics with a goal of reducing pollution, minimizing depletion of natural resources and reducing our overall environmental footprint. We have obtained ISO14001:2015, Environmental Management Standard certification for 18 of our key locations and ISO50001, Energy Management Standard certification for 13 of our key locations. Specifically, we are working to optimize energy and resource usage, ultimately reducing greenhouse gas emissions and waste.

Human Capital

At Boston Scientific, our work is guided by core values and behaviors that define our culture and empower our employees, including Caring, Diversity, Global Collaboration, High Performance, Meaningful Innovation and Winning Spirit. As of December 31, 2024, we had approximately 53,000 employees, of which approximately 60 percent were outside the U.S. We believe the collective talent of our employees and our shared corporate culture, values and behaviors give us a competitive advantage.

Attracting, developing and retaining talented employees are key parts of our strategy and are critical to our success. We strive to do this by fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace, providing competitive pay and benefits and flexible work conditions, offering ongoing employee growth and development opportunities and cultivating a culture that prioritizes employee health, safety and well-being. 

Workforce Development

We do our best work to advance health care when we have a diverse range of perspectives and experience on our team. Innovation thrives in a culture of engagement and inclusion. The society in which we live and the customers and patients we serve are diverse and we aim for our employees at all levels of the organization to reflect this diversity. In recent years, we have made steady progress to improve the diversity of our workforce. 

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