“You should never forget for a single moment the reason all of our products are made and purchased. We deal in health products, and we believe they have to be right. They just have to be the best, or we don’t want to handle them.”

– Harris Willits
from the commemorative book, Bard: Power of the Past, Force of the Future


People • Quality & Innovation • Growth • Life

Bard's past and present CEOs met in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in June 2006 to discuss the company's evolution over the last four decades. From left to right are William Longfield, George Maloney, Timothy Ring and Robert McCaffrey.

People
Harris Willits once said that it was people-more than strategy-that made Bard successful...and his successors agree.

"..there have been a lot of people that have been responsible for this 100 years of success. They are now part of the next 100 years.." William Longfield, 2006

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Quality & Innovation
Today, our six divisions offer more than 8,000 products worldwide. Yet, Bard remains consistent in our commitment to quality and our focus on meeting the changing needs of the medical community.

"It's the back and forth idea generation between the clinician and our people that I think have really helped the company become even more innovative over the last few years." Timothy Ring, 2006

"...the pace of change in technology has picked up tremendously in the last ten years and probably even more in the last three years, then we've ever experienced before. And it's one of the reasons that were investing so much in research & development." John Weiland, 2006

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Growth
Today, our six divisions provide the framework for continued growth as we strive to better serve our customers and create new business opportunities.

"You know one of the strenghts of the company is our diversification and as we always tell people, we're not one big thing by design." Timothy Ring, 2006

"Critical to Bard was an understanding of the professions with whom they are dealing. I think that Charles Russell Bard himself started that tradition with a very strong relationship with urologists. Over the years, his successors not only maintained, but energized that relationship." Robert McCaffrey, 2006

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Life
With our mission to advance the delivery of healthcare, we have made a difference in the lives of patients, healthcare providers, our employees and the communities in which we live and work.

"This is a very serious enterprise, but you don't have to be serious every minute of every day...you ought to enjoy it too. You ought to have time to spend with your family and your community activities. I think Bard has always been very good at that...I tried to foster it strongly when I was here and as near as I can observe, they still do." Robert McCaffrey, 2006

"I remember my first controller's conference back in the 1990s. The CFO at the time stood up and there were a lot of young people in the room. He said family, community, then Bard. He said those are the priorities...I don't want to hear about any other priorities. That's how it's got to work here..." Todd Schermerhorn, 2006

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