Can BMS Deliver on Innovation?

In December of 2007, Bristol-Myers announced its commitment to become a 'next-generation" biopharma company, with a focus on biologics and specialty drugs. That meant it would divest its non-core non-pharma assets, improve productivity, bolster R&D, and make sure its financing was in shape-even as its peers were taking the opposite approach. Two years later, it appears to be successfully executing on its objectives for the first two stages.