Schering-Plough: What Went Wrong, What to Do
Executive Summary
CEO Fred Hassan faults decentralization and financial over-management for much of Schering's trouble--including its inability to fix its manufacturing problems, its lack of oversight over its sales force, and its inadequate response to the competitive threat from Roche. Cutting costs further--as some analysts looking for short-term earnings growth would like to see--won't help. Instead, Hassan's investing-particularly in marketing-oriented clinical studies.