Chapter 01: How a Son's Career Can Parallel a Father's
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In this chapter, Dr. Balch talks the choices his father made while developing a career as a chemist. He observes that his own career path paralleled his father's track: entrepreneurial, research based, and academic. Dr. Balch keys on the fact that his father's entrepreneurial initiatives involved vision, a key leadership quality. Dr. Balch then talks about the leadership qualities that have been important in his own career.
Next, Dr. Balch talks about R. Lee Clark's vision for MD Anderson. He describes how he met Dr. Clark.
Identifier
BalchC_01_20181022_C01
Publication Date
10-22-2018
Publisher
The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Topic Covered
The Interview Subject's Story - Personal Background; Leadership; On Leadership; Personal Background; Character, Values, Beliefs, Talents; Personal Background; Inspirations to Practice Science/Medicine; Influences from People and Life Experiences; Institutional Mission and Values; MD Anderson History; MD Anderson Snapshot; Portraits
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Balch, Charles M. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 01: How a Son's Career Can Parallel a Father's" (2018). Interview Chapters. 463.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/463
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Open
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