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Industry: No longer ‘hell with the lid off’

By Francesco Guerrera in New York

Published: September 23 2009 17:17 | Last updated: September 23 2009 17:17

When Roger Scarlett-Smith was first posted to Pittsburgh in the mid-1990s, his UK colleagues were quick to offer their condolences.

“When I came out here, people in London felt it was like a [prison] sentence,” says the British-born president at GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical giant.

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