Henri Termeer was one of the first of a pioneering group of business executives who built a disparate group of fledgling companies into a biotech industry that has driven decades of therapeutic innovation. During a 28year career at Genzyme including 26 years as CEO he created a process ofdrug development that for the first time was patientcentered. He also helped forge biotechs public policy agenda and inspired a generation of entrepreneurs to take on large and important challenges. An extraordinary number of todays biotech leaders were directly mentored by Termeer. His ownleadership was iconoclastic He broke rules and took risks setting ambitious goals and finding novel ways to reach them. In doing so he transformed an industry and brought hope to patients with a range of diseases previously deemed too rare to justify the investment needed to support thedevelopment of specific therapies. In Conscience and Courage John Hawkins an insightful analyst of healthcare leaders reveals the philosophy principles methods and habits of a prominent and successful CEO who defied convention to create an investorowned global enterprise that put people before profits and improved the lives ofthousands of forgotten patients.