Challenges In The News - 03/25/08

It you’re a Web designer, you’re more likely to lose clients to foreign competitors than to Web publishing tools like Weebly or Syntha-Site. Yes, these programs have significantly lowered the bar for the technically challenged, making it easy to set up a page in a manner of minutes. They’re great for first-time users and small-time entrepreneurs.

OEM’s have nonetheless encountered new and daunting challenges.

Can they manage challenging logistics and supply packaging globally?

Cultivating those alliances “would be challenging in any organization, but particularly in an organization that has been so successful because of a decentralized culture.

In addition to the legal challenges, Hassan will need to boost sales of existing products, including new cholesterol-lowering drug Zetia. “I don’t have all the answers yet. My strategy is to build (the company) and not work toward selling it.”

Food companies face a unique challenge delivering refrigerated foods to these out-of-the-way places.

Our challenge is to take all of those people and get them jobs.

I think whether they retreat into another round of selfishness or can respond to JFK’s challenge – to ask not what the country can do for me but what I can do for the country – will have to do with whether we as a society call them up to a higher purpose.

As the drug industry grapples with patent expirations and a chronic lack of exciting drugs in the pipeline, Levinson faces a unique challenge – living up to his own track record.

Much of the challenge stems from the fact that scientists have barely begun to understand the cascade of biological miscues that tripper the illnesses.

For example, only 30% of breast cancer patients carry the markers that qualify them for Genentech’s drug Herceptin, yeet the treatment is worth $1 billion a year. But autoimmune diseases are more challenging, says rheumatologist Timothy W. Behrens, who was the lead biomarker expert scouted from the University of Minnesota. In 2003, Levinson and his crew got an early, painful glimpse of how big a challenge they may be facing in autoimmune diseases.