Assignment:
Amgen, Inc:
general information for research project; Porter's five forces as applied to Amgen; information for SWOT analysis of
Amgen. (MGMT 430, 01/30/03)
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Foster Business Library
Databases:
: Use the Company Quick Search tab near the top of the screen to initiate a search for
information about public or private companies; considerably more information is avaiable for the former than for the
latter.
(This database is only accessible from the library computers in the Foster Business Library and Balmer, MacKenzie
Lewis Halls and SeaFirst Executive Education Center, on the Seattle campus, and at the Tacoma Campus and on Bothell
Campus Libraries. It is not accessible from any other location on campus or through a dial-in connection.)
A Company Quick Search for Amgen retrieved information about the company's history, news about the company,
press releases, trade articles, pictures, financials, etc.
Investext:
On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases; also listed under Company and
Industry.
Investext contains indexing and the full text of company and
industry research reports prepared by leading Wall Street firms, as well
as regional and international brokerage and financial firms. All reports are in PDF format.
(This database is available widely on campus and may be
accessed from home via the U.W. connectivity kit or via the Libraries'
proxy server.)
A company search for the ticker symbol AMGN produced a list of over 2,400
reports. A search for reports on the Biotechnology industry produced over 13,000
reports.
Lexis-Nexis Academic:
To find company information, go to Business and then to Company Financial where
you can obtain financial and other data for companies. Information is available from twenty
different sources (each of which must be searched separately). Included among the sources is
Hoovers Online, with members' access to company profiles. SEC filings, particularly
company 10K annual reports, are a particularly rich source of company as well as industry
information. Use your browser's Find command (or Control-F) to locate references to
particular terms of interest in 10K filings such as trends, strategy, competitors, industry,
etc. (This database is available widely on campus and may be accessed from home via the U.W.
connectivity kit or via the Libraries' proxy server.)
A search for SEC 10-K reports for AMGN, for all dates, retrieved
118 filings or parts of filings, back to 1990. Typically, these reports are a gold mine
for company,
industry, and market and market share information.
There is also usually information about threats to the company in its business environment
(as well as anything that might
influence stock prices), about competitors, about industry conditions, etc.
Lexis-Nexis Statistical:
Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage.
Statistical Universe is an index to statistical data in commercial, international and
U.S.
government publications. Try the Power Tables for quick access to tables of data in
GIF format.
A search in this database for Amgen retrieved two Power Tables; a subject search for
Biotechnology retrieved 52 tables, 17 of them with Excel spreadsheets.
Compact Disclosure:
Information on over 10,000 public U.S. corporations, including ownership,
size, current and 5-year summary financial data, earnings, directors and
officers, annual cash flow, ratios and stock price information. Updated
quarterly. Note the various backfiles which must be accessed separately.
This CD-ROM database is available only in the Foster Business Library.
Complete financials for AMGN are available in this
database and its backfiles, including details about ownership.
Web Resources:
Unlike library databases, these online resources are available wherever you have web access;
they do not require that you access them via the UW Connectivity Kit or the UW Libraries Proxy Server for
authentication. For links to business websites by topic, see Business Resources on the Web
on the Foster Business Library homepage. Good sources for business topics include trade associations (which often
provide industry data unavailable elsewhere) and government regulatory and oversight agencies (which are also a good
source for industry data).
When using web resources, be sure to
evaluate the credibility of these resources.
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Amgen, Inc.
Company websites often provide extensive amounts of corporate information including histories
of the company, investor information such as annual reports and Securities and Exchange
Commission filings, historical stock prices, executive biographies, company news and press
releases, etc. Look for this information under headings for Investor Relations, About The
Company, etc.
See their Investor Center for merger information, financials, SEC filings, annual reports for the past three years, etc. See also About Amgen.
- Company Research (Business
Week):
Business Week offers information on 4,000 companies in its Careers section (so some of the information is aimed
at job-seekers), with a Corporate Snapshot, a Vault.Com Scoop, a Wetfeet.Com profile, as well as Business Week
articles about the companies (some of which are available only for subscribers but are also available in the Foster
Business Library database ABI/Inform Global).
See Business Week's company profiles for Amgen.
- Quicken.Com:
This site is a good source for information about companies and about their
position among their competitors; use the Compare Companies feature on the left menu for
this information.
See the company profile for Amgen as well
as the
company's position among its competitors
in terms of
market capitalization in the Biotechnology industry.
- Yahoo! Finance:
This site is excellent for company and investment
information as well as an excellent source for financial ratio comparisons with industry,
sector and S&P
500.
See the company profile for Amgen as well as the excellent
Ratio
Comparisons for the company, its industry, its sector, and the S&P 500.
- Competia Express:
This site, provided free by a Montreal-based strategic planning and competitive intelligence firm,
is an excellent source for industry links for over forty industries. For each industry, Competia
provides annotated links to relevant industry associations, online magazines, company information,
regulatory agencies, consultants, technical intelligence, and daily industry news.
See their links for the Biotechnology industry.
- Baker
Library Industry Guides:
Excellent industry guides from the Harvard University Business School Baker Library on
Biotechnology &
Pharmaceuticals, Computer Hardware & Components, Computer Software &
Services, Consulting, Food & Grocery & Beverage & Tobacco, Healthcare,
Investment Management & Investment Banking,
Nonprofits, Governments & Education, Personal & Household Products, Publishing & Printing,
Retail-Wholesale, Telecommunications & Communications, and Venture Capital
& Private Equity.
See their guide for the Biotechnology and
Pharmaceuticals industry.
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Industry Profiles (Wetfeet.Com):
This job hunting site from Wetfeet.Com offers profiles of 31 industries, with an industry
overview, trends,
industry organization, job
prospects, what's great and what's to hate in the industry, from the viewpoint of a jobseeker,
major companies in the
industry, and example job descriptions and tips on how to get hired in the industry. There are
also links to industry
associations and a profile of an individual working in the industry. The amount of industry
information makes up for
annoying popups.
See their lowdown on the Biotechnology and
Pharmaceuticals
industry.
- Gary Price's List of Lists:
This site, developed by a librarian, is devoted to lists of the largest or top or leading companies
or individuals in a wide variety of industries, culled from an enormous number of magazines.
See his lists on the Health Care
industry.
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About Biotech:
This site is part of the offerings of the National Health Museum, intended to provide "high
school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new
scientific information via the World Wide Web. The program was originally developed and launched by Genentech Inc., a
leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets human pharmaceuticals for significant
unmet medical needs." This site is a good starting point for understanding the biotechnology industry, with links to
the chronology of biotech, biotechnology in pharmaceuticals, food, farms and forensics, and biotech issues and ethics.
See the Biotechnology Industry
Review.
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Biotechnology Industry Organization:
"In 1993, when there were but a handful of biotechnology drugs on the market and the sequencing of the human genome
was
pegged for completion somewhere around 2005, two small Washington-based biotechnology trade organizations merged to
create the Biotechnology Industry Organization, better known as BIO. One of the founding organizations, the
Industrial Biotechnology Association (IBA), primarily represented
larger, established companies on Capitol Hill and before federal regulatory agencies; the other, the Association of
Biotechnology Companies (ABC), represented emerging companies and universities, and focused on technology transfer
issues, meetings and other business development activities.
BIO united the organizations' 503 companies and 18 employees under one umbrella."
Amgen is a member of this organization.
See their Guide to Biotechnology and Industry Statistics.
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America:
"The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading research-based
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies." Amgen is a member of this organization.
See the links to their Industry Profile
2002
and to Pharmaceutical Industry Primer
2001.
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The Business of Biotech:
This article in the online edition of the June 2000 issue of the Harvard Business School Bulletin describes where the
industry is headed, with comments from industry veterans and experts.
- Business Full Coverage (Yahoo! Daily News):
Yahoo! Daily News for business includes Business Full
Coverage webpages for four dozen important
business topics of high
interest, including many industries. These full coverage reports collect articles, webpages, and
links to relevant
organizations, audio, video, and recent news stories.
See Biotechnology
and Genetics.
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Harvard Business School Cases:
This site offers access to Harvard Business School's collection of over 7,000 cases as well as
numerous other products, with a site search feature. The Foster Business Library does not
collect Harvard Business School cases since they are designed for classroom use.
A search, in all products, including cases, for Amgen turned up just two
items, a 1992 18-page case study entitled Amgen, Inc.:
Planning the Unplannable and a Harvard Business School book, The War for Talent,
published in 2001. This book is not in the UW Libraries' collection but is available on request via Cascade.
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Porter's Five Forces:
This site is from QuickMBA, with a good summary of Porter's five forces. "QuickMBA is an online knowledge
resource for business administration. Our goal is to help you to quickly find the business knowledge you need, when
you need it, wherever you may be. Topics are presented as frameworks and summaries in the various subjects of business
administration, as taught in the world's top MBA programs. QuickMBA is operated by the Internet Center for Management
and Business Administration, Inc. No registration is required."
See also their SWOT Analysis page. For similar pages, see
Business Resource Software, Inc.'s pages on the Michael Porter
Five Forces Model and SWOT Analysis. Finally, see Porter's homepage.
Foster Business
Library Reference Collection:
The Foster Business Library reference collection consists
of business handbooks,
encyclopedias, dictionaries and other quick reference tools. It is located behind
the Reference Desk in the center of the library's first floor. The reference works listed below
are arranged according to call number and, since none of these books
circulate, they should always be available--except when in use by a
library user.
- Statistical abstract of the United States.
Information about many industries as well as demographic information;
check index for references to tables. The sources for each table are
often a valuable source of additional information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA202 .U56 2001.
Also available online.
See index page 958 for many tables on
Drugs and medicines industry, manufacturing.
- U.S. industry & trade outlook.
Industry by industry overview of the U.S. economy, with numerous tables, charts, industry
reviews, forecasts and analyses.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC101 .U543 2000.
Also available online under Free Industry Overviews.
See Chapter 11, page 11-13 for
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals.
- WEFA industrial monitor.
Reviews and forecasts of sales, output, prices and other key
statistics for 130 industries, obtained by a major global economic
consulting firm.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC101 .W44 1999/2000.
See page 11.12 for Drugs, soaps, and toiletries.
- Standard & Poor's industry surveys.
This three-volume set provides 30-page profiles on 52 industries
with a focus
on the current economic environment, trends, regulation and outlook for
each industry.
Major companies in each industry are profiled, with references to sources
of additional industry information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.6 .S74 (Quarterly)
See Biotechnology in volume one; see the forecast for this
industry, in the front of this volume, on page 19. Amgen is one of the
companies included
in the Comparative Company Analysis at the end of the industry survey.
- Industry studies.
This excellent reference work provides essays, mostly by professors of economics,
about 14 significant industries: automobiles, beer, broilers, pharmaceuticals, steel,
airline service, retail commercial banking, casino gambling, electric power, health
insurance, motion pictures, nursing homes, microcomputer platforms, and
telecommunications.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.8 .I53 2002.
See Pharmaceuticals on pages 96 to 117.
- The encyclopedia of management.
This
one-volume covers 348 management topics, arranged alphabetically from Activity-Based Costing
to
Zero-Sum Game.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 E49 2000.
See SWOT analysis and the five forces on pages 882 to 884.
- Business: the ultimate resource.
This 2,200-page single volume is "designed to offer a wide range of insights, information, and
practical guidance on every aspect of management" via 2.5 million words of text from 200
contributors, with 700 illustrations and 150 maps, in seven major sections including best
practice, a management library, business thinkers and management giants, a business
dictionary, a world business almanac, and a guide to business sources.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 2002.
See Michael Porter
on pages 900 to 901 and pages 1038 to 1039; both sections cover his five forces; see also Performing a SWOT
analysis on pages 468 to 469.
- Encyclopedia of global industries.
Twelve-page descriptions of 125 global industries, with background and
development
information, current conditions, industry leaders and further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E53 2003.
See Biotechnology, on pages 53 to 68, with two references to Amgen.
- Encyclopedia of emerging industries.
Five page descriptions of over 100 new industries, with an industry snapshot,
organization and structure, background and development, pioneers in the field, current
conditions, industry leaders and references to further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E528 2001.
See Genetic Engineering, pages 289 to 298, with mention of Amgen on page
295.
- International directory of company histories.
Studying the history of leading companies in an industry is a good
way to learn more about the history of an industry. This
set of more than forty volumes covers over 5,600 company histories worldwide, with each
history running just two to four pages; check the company index in the latest volume
to locate a specific company history or update as well as any other
references to that company in other company histories. There is also
an index by industry.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2721 .I57
See Amgen in volume ten, pages 78 to 81, with an update in volume 30, pages
58 to 61.
- HDMA industry profile and healthcare factbook.
This spiral bound paperback, published by the Healthcare Distribution Management Association (formerly the National Wholesale Druggists' Association), provides a wealth of data about the drug, biotech, and related distribution industries, as well as copious health care and drug data, demographics, trends, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9666.1 .N92 2002.
See Amgen on pages 92, 94, 95, 98, and 129.
- Plunkett's biotech & genetics industry almanac.
This new reference paperback provides statistics, trend, and company information about this
industry, with tables, charts and company profiles.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9999 .B44 .P58 2003/2004.
See Amgen on page 110 and industry information in the first several chapters.
- Red book/Standard directory of advertisers.
This annual two-volume publication is the most
comprehensive
source for information on the advertising practices of 24,000 U.S. and Canadian companies spending a
minimum of $200,000 on national and regional advertising. Companies may be accessed by 54 business
categories or by state, province or city. Entries for companies advertising include SIC codes, business
descriptions, statistics, personnel, approximate advertising expenditures, and media. Entries for ad
agencies often include the companies and brand names handled and the executive assigned to each account.
Volume two includes indexes by product by state or province, by brand name, by SIC code and by personnel.
There is also a geographic index volume.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5805 .S7 2003 (volume 1:
businesses)
See Amgen in volume one, page 1587.
- Mergent OTC industrial manual.
This one-volume work covers over 3,000 companies traded over the counter on national stock exchanges, with
extensive information about companies, including history, chronology, acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs,
properties, joint ventures, subsidiaries, officers and directors, consolidated income and balance sheets
for three and two years, respectively, long term debit, options, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4501 .M66 2002.
See Amgen on pages 411 to 415.
- Value Line investment survey.
This large two-volume investment advice service provides regular reviews of 3,500 company
stocks and their
expected performance. The arrangement is not alphabetically by company; instead, use the
index in a pocket in the front of the standard or expanded volumes to locate which volume your
company is in and the issue number in which it appears.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4501 .V26 (Weekly)
Also available online.
Find Amgen in the standard edition, issue number four, page 672, dated
June 27, 2003 (or a more recent edition); see also the preceding page in this issue
for the Biotechnology industry.
- Mergent industry review.
Statistical data on 3,000 companies in 137 industries, with ranking, key
financial information, operating data and ratios.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4961 .M68 August 2003-January 2004.
See Amgen in the industry review #075, Biotechnology, on pages 72 to 79.
Foster Business Library
Books:
This collection is located on the south side of the library, through the two pass-throughs to the
Balmer basement.
The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west
end).
The Foster Business Library General Stacks collection contains
70,000 business-related books.
These books may be
found by searching the
UW Libraries Catalog.
The UW Libraries Catalog may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business
Databases or
at the top of the left menu under
FIND IT).
Look under Keywords for
the
company of your choice; limit by library Location to the
Foster Business Library when doing a Keyword search for business topics.
For help in searching the UW Libraries Catalog, click HELP.
Circulation status is indicated in the box in the middle of each online catalog record, on the
right. Check Shelf indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and
available for you to check out. Due and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to
someone and is due back on the date indicated. Books that are already checked out to someone else, or
books at the Bothell or Tacoma campus libraries (or elsewhere on the Seattle campus) may be reserved for
your use and sent here to Foster by using the Request button on the upper menu. Books unavailable
in any of the University of Washington Libraries may be available in the collections of Central
Washington University, Eastern Washington University, The Evergreen State College, Washington State
University, or Western Washington University through the Cascade online catalog. To search Cascade, use
the menu button for Repeat Search in Cascade. It can take from a few days to a week or more to
obtain books from other libraries and to have them sent to Foster for you to pick up so use this option
only if you can afford to wait.
A keyword search for Amgen retrieved just two
records, one for the company's annual reports, and a pamphlet, Amgen, published in 1998, in the Foster Business Library.
There are also books in the UW Libraries with chapters in them about Amgen, including:
A search for the subject Biotechnology Industries retrieved 155 records
in the UW Libraries,
of which 39
records are in the Foster Business Libraries' collections.
An author search for Porter, Michael E., 1947- , limited to the Foster Business Library, produced a list of thirteen
records.
Foster Business
Library Corporate Annual Reports:
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand
annual
reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are
filed in
lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign
Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an
industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry
itself. For a list of all the companies in the Corporate Annual Reports collection,
click here.
For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, click
here. For an
index to companies with
headquarters outside the U.S., click here.
Corporate annual reports are also often available on company homepages. A good source for those
annual reports is Hoovers
Online on the Foster Business Library homepage, under
Business Databases.
The collection includes annual reports for Amgen, Inc.,
as well as thirty other companies in the
Drugs
industry.
Foster Business
Library Articles:
In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection,
the Foster Business Library offers access to 11,000 full text periodical
articles through its full text article
databases such as: ABI/Inform
Global,
Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis Academic.
These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed alphabetically under
Business
Databases or in the Articles: Full Text folder.
Of these three main sources, all but
Factiva are available from any computer on the campus
network (as well as from home) via the UW
Connectivity
Kit or via the
Libraries' proxy server.
The easiest of these databases to use is ABI/Inform Global.
For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off
campus, click here. For more information
about business databases, click here.
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ABI/Inform Global:
This database offers full text articles for over 800 journals.
To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase
into the
search box.
ABI/Inform Global includes journals but not national or Washington state newspapers (though
the Wall Street Journal is included). It also does not include valuable trade and industry
and other periodicals. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by
expanding your search to all databases in ABI/Inform. To expand your search to include all
collections in this database, click on
Select multiple databases, to the right of the search box. Click on all of the databases.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red
in each article. For tips on searching this database, click here.
As an example, a search for CO(Amgen), in all databases,
produced a list of over 1,500
articles.
A search for CO(Amgen, Inc.) (with the added Inc.)
produced a list of more than 900
articles.
A company search for CO(Amgen, Inc.), looking for associated narrowing terms in this database, showed just one such term: SUB(Pharmaceutical industry).
A search for CO(Amgen Inc) and SUB(Pharmaceutical industry) produced a list of just over 100 articles.
A search for CO(Amgen) and strengths, also in all databases,
produced a list of 15
articles.
