To drive future growth, the company has a pipeline of products for solid-state drive controllers, digital entertainment, cloud computing and smart energy.
Investors cheered as Dolan predicted 28% earnings growth for 2003, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Bonfield assured that the company's numbers are solid and new Chief Scientific Officer James Palmer outlined a pipeline of drugs that might allow Bristol (nyse: BMY - news - people ) to weather another round of patent expirations.
Humira will remain a solid contributor, but if new products threaten its standing Abbott has several late-stage pipeline opportunities that could offset any possible loss in Humira sales.
In fact, she refused requests to put abortion bills on the agenda during a special legislative session this summer, preferring to discuss the natural-gas pipeline, which she pursued in such a bipartisan manner that she ultimately won more solid support for it from Democrats than from Republicans.