Oral history interview with Dennis Gillings, June 10, 1999
Subtitle: Interview I-0072, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Chief executive officers; Pharmaceutical industry; International business enterprises; Quintiles Transnational Corporation
Other titles: Interview I-0072. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Dennis Gillings, June 10, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Dennis Gillings is the chairman and chief executive officer of Quintiles Transnational Corporation, a company specializing in consulting for the pharmaceutical agency. In this interview, he describes the decision, made when he held a professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to apply his training as a scientist in the corporate world. Gillings left academia after his corporation's growth seemed secure. He shares his common-sense driven business philosophy, which, despite its lack of nuance, appears to have served him very well.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on October 11, 2007).

Interview participants: Dennis Gillings, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer.

Duration: 01:16:21.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers, Southern Folklife Collection.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 116.4 kilobytes, 139.8 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series I, Business history, interview I-0072, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 32 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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