To boost the top line while Perlmutter's pipeline was kicking in, Sharer turned to acquisitions.
The chronic over-sharer tends to get too personal too fast, both in romantic and professional conversation.
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Meanwhile, Sharer is concerned that Roche may launch CERA before the patent case goes to trial.
The third challenge facing Amgen, says Sharer, is new technology that these potential competitors are employing.
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Sharer has been in his position since 2000, and will have spent two decades with the company.
Sharer will step down as CEO in May, and will serve as chairman through December 31, 2012.
Amgen Chief Executive Kevin Sharer acknowledges the company's significant challenges but says he can address all of them.
"It's kind of a hobby, " says "Wukong, " a computer professional and habitual file-sharer, who asked to remain anonymous.
Chief Executive KevinSharerKevin Sharer finds himself in both an enviable and tough spot.
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"You've got to run scared all the time, " says Sharer, during an interview in his art-filled office overlooking Amgen's campus.
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Amgen (AMGN) said late yesterday that chairman and chief executive officer Kevin Sharer will retire from the company at the end of 2012.
Given the huge number of things that all have to go right for a new drug to succeed, Sharer admits to being nervous sometimes.
Sharer also lured immunologist Roger Perlmutter in 2001 to become Amgen's first chief of both research and development (the two posts previously were split).
The musician and renowned over-sharer John Mayer addressed a related point when he announced his TMI migration from Twitter to the Tumblr blogging platform.
Since then Sharer has replaced eight of the ten highest-ranking executives.
Zuckerberg may seem like an over-sharer in the age of over-sharing.
"We think at this point in the year we ought to be mindful of those reimbursement concerns, " Chief Executive Kevin Sharer told analysts in New York.
The new flood of drugs is the result of a dramatic overhaul that Sharer has put in place since taking the top post at Amgen five years ago.
"We've got an unsustainable industry situation here, " Sharer said.
If a file sharer appears to be working out of New Guinea, say, the movie studio can't rely on a friendly ISP to find an illegal downloader here in the United States.
Amgen Chief Executive KevinSharerKevin Sharer has hopes that a new drug, denosumab, could become a "double blockbuster, " both as a twice-a-year treatment for osteoporosis and as a remedy for cancers of the bone.
Amgen Chief Executive Kevin Sharer has hopes that a new drug, denosumab, could become a "double blockbuster, " both as a twice-a-year treatment for osteoporosis and as a remedy for cancers of the bone.
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