Archive for May, 2012

  • Drug Shortages Leave Healthcare Providers Foraging for Vital Medicines

    By Phil Clements on May 10, 2012
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    Unprofitable Drugs… The Star Ledger Sunday Business Section recently printed a front page article called, “Shortage puts lives in Jeopardy: Cancer drugs’ scarcity a persistent problem” by Susan Todd. Todd highlights that in New Jersey there is a notable shortage of some cancer treatment drugs. These shortages began to show up about four years ago. The cause seems to be manufacturing problem, [...]
  • Culture or Compass, Which Comes First?

    By Phil Clements on May 1, 2012
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    From Sunday’s Star Ledger April 29, 2012, on front page of “Perspective” section 2, there are two articles that show the lack of reasoning and understanding of the problem in developing an answer to the ethical issues in business.  In the first article, the lead on the page is, “Big Business Behaving Badly: Have America’s Commercial Giants Lost their Ethical Compass?” [...]