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       Tuesday, September 12, 2006

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Bristol-Myers Squibb CEO Resigns

According to a Bloomberg.com report:

"Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Chief Executive Officer Peter Dolan stepped down effective immediately after a bungled agreement to keep a generic version of the drugmaker's top-selling heart pill Plavix off the market.

A monitor appointed by a federal prosecutor last night told the Bristol-Myers board that Dolan, 50, and General Counsel Richard Willard should be dismissed because their effort to protect sales of Plavix broke the terms of a 2005 agreement that let
the company avoid prosecution for inflating sales to meet earnings goals."


With countless people struggling to pay ever increasing medical costs, the public revelation of efforts to keep a less expensive, generic version of the drug off the market must seem to be a true public relations nightmare for those at the head of Bristol-Myers. So-called 'Big Pharm' has few friends among the common people these days. Some cynics may point to CEO Dolan's real problem, the primary reason for the heavy pressure for him to step down, as being that "since Dolan took over as CEO, Bristol-Myers's stock has lost 56 percent of its value," as reported by Bloomberg.com. Interestingly, share prices are now on their way back up, according to recent reports.



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posted by Sharon Secor at 10:34 AM  

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