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Deborah Dunsire - From her start as a physician working in apartheid-era South Africa to the dramatic turnaround and takeover of Millennium, Deborah Dunsire has lived a life without boundaries. Here, on the 20th anniversary of the HBA Woman of the Year Award, Dunsire recounts her own two-decade career, and talks about what it takes to build an oncology empire.

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Maureen Regan, managing partner of RCW McCann and the 1997 Woman of the Year, says it’s difficult to distinguish personal from professional roadblocks when you start a business. And as time went on and her son grew, so did her business.

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Tamar Howson, former director of worldwide business development at SmithKline Beecham and now an executive at JSB Partners, says women must have the self-confidence to demand a life outside the office. Here, Howson talks about how to find your personal balance and build an environment that allows you to live it.

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Charlotte Sibley, a senior vice president for Shire, says she’s been hired, fired, upsized, downsized, promoted, demoted, and acquired. So what has it taught her? “People will forget what you said, forget what you did—but never how you made them feel.”

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In 1996, Kathy Giusti was diagnosed with a then-incurable cancer. Instead of giving up, she decided to fight back by establishing the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. In the process, Kathy has matched business solutions to clinical problems and is saving patients’ lives.

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Meryl Zausner, CFO of Novartis North America, says that when it came to traveling for work, leaving her son was hard, but coming home was even harder. Spend more time with your family—and don’t let your legacy get lost in the details of the day-to-day job.

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Live life on your toes, not your heels, says Lynn O’Connor Vos, CEO of Grey Healthcare Group. Each day offers a new opportunity to invest in the way the industry communicates—and reinvent the way people think. Of course you’ll grow the business. Along the way, don’t forget to grow yourself.

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Over a 30-year career, there were many bumps in the road—especially as a woman and as a minority, says Sarah Harrison, former vice president of customer strategy integration for AstraZeneca, and CEO of H&S Enterprise, Inc. In this podcast interview, Harrison talks about how she took on different roles to prove herself, and ended up with the ability to run the business, not just a functional area.

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Lynn Gaudioso, president of Ivanhoe Strategies, LLC and former vice president, business development for the consumer group for Pfizer, says that it is easy to time correct for the gender issues that plagued the industry for most of its history. Here, Lynn offers the same advice she gives her daughter—don’t let women’s rights disintegrate on your watch.

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HBA’s CEO Laurie Cooke teams up with HBA President Ceci Zak, vice president of general therapeutics for sanofi-aventis, to share how the Woman of the Year Award has changed the face of industry. PLUS: Ceci recounts how HBA has allowed her to “dream a dream”—one that she didn’t even know she had.

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GlaxoSmithKline’s Catherine Sohn, senior vice president of worldwide business development and strategic alliances for consumer healthcare, talks about the strength her father gave her to pursue her dreams and why it makes her want to give back. PLUS: Sohn shares her excitement over GSK’s new US head of the pharma business, Deidre Connelly.

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Agency Academic: Ahnal Purohit, President and CEO of Purohit Navigation, reflects on her career move from professor to president—and how she translated her analytical skills to better brands. PLUS: What it’s like to run the only minority-owned independent advertising agency.