Our Promise
Our "Promise for Life" is a statement that describes – for our
customers, our communities, our shareholders and all of our stakeholders – what
we believe in, what we value, and what we strive to deliver in our day-to-day
work. For Abbott employees, Our Promise is our compass – guiding us in our
actions and decision making, to ensure we live up to the high expectations
we’ve set for ourselves in order to serve our stakeholders better. Our Promise
challenges us to continually improve and inspires us to always aim higher.
A Promise for Life
Turning Science into Caring
We are here for the people we serve in their pursuit of healthy lives. This
has been the way of Abbott for more than a century – passionately and
thoughtfully translating science into lasting contributions to health.
Our
products encircle life, from newborns to aging adults, from
nutrition and diagnostics
through medical care and pharmaceutical therapy.
Caring is central to the work we do and defines our responsibility to those
we serve:
- We advance leading-edge science and technologies that hold the
potential for significant improvements to health and to the practice of health
care.
- We value our diversity – that of our
products, technologies, markets and people – and believe that diverse
perspectives combined with shared goals inspire new ideas and better ways of
addressing changing health needs.
- We focus on exceptional performance – a hallmark of Abbott people
worldwide – demanding of ourselves and each other because our work impacts
people’s lives.
- We strive to earn the trust of those we serve by committing to the
highest standards of quality, excellence in personal relationships, and
behavior characterized by honesty, fairness and integrity.
- We sustain success – for our business and the people we serve – by
staying true to key tenets upon which our company was founded over a century
ago: innovative care and a desire to make a meaningful difference in all that
we do.
The promise of our company is in the promise that our work holds for health
and life.