"As a for-profit business that's an attractive pond to go swimming in, " says Mr Beck.
However, many for-profit business owners are also suing, claiming a violation of their religious beliefs.
But ESPN is a for-profit business, not a governmental entity, attempting to protect its brand and shareholder value.
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"We put every dollar of revenue or outside funding toward identifying a scalable, for-profit business model, " he says.
Whereas most house museums are nonprofits run by local preservation groups, Farnsworth House is run as a for-profit business.
Most people today, even in for-profit business, are not about making a living being the best they can be.
BPP, a for-profit business and law school, and Regents College, a private college in London, report similarly heightened demand.
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Please note: The author is the president of TRACE International, a non-profit business association dedicated to anti-bribery compliance.
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Homeschool.com founder Elizabeth Kanna, who teaches her three daughters at home, turned her personal need for information into a for-profit business.
Time will tell what margins the competitors will make, but I suspect their tablets will be a low profit business for a while.
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In other words, just as in a for-profit business, if paying more produces better execution of the goal, the higher salary produces greater value.
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He achieved that reputation the old fashioned way: He earned it as a former Congressman, successful non-profit business executive and long-time top-rated talk radio show.
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To that end Judja-Sato set up a for-profit business, VidaGas, that distributes propane gas to the Ministry of Health as well as to residential and commercial customers.
Social entrepreneurs apply for-profit business principles to social problems.
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It should be stressed here that as an individual running a for-profit business, Mozilo should have been free to offer customers all manner of options if willing to suffer the consequences of loans gone wrong.
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It is indeed an irony that, in the area of tropical disease, the wicked drug firms have discovered the value of not-for-profit business at precisely the point when governments are contemplating the idea that the best way forward is the use of incentives more attuned to red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism.
To emphasize how Autonomy would transform HP into a software giant focused on high-profit business customers, and, perhaps, to forestall some nagging questions about PCs and the tablet failure, HP also announced that it was exploring the sale or spinoff of the PC business and that it was closing the WebOS device business.
Fam Mirza, a young entrepreneur who has never let convention get in the way of a good idea, has launched a new watch company called 1:Face Watch that is a for profit business that promises to donate a portion of its revenue to one of six causes each one associated with a color (think bright pink for breast cancer).
These include earnings, cash flow and capital returns, as well as stock price, profit from business units and leadership measures.
The publishing company will include newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, the HarperCollins book publisher, Australian TV assets and its fledgling for-profit education business, Amplify.
The for-profit college business model is essentially built on these lines: diploma mills which exist solely on the government dime and yet are almost entirely unregulated.
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Capping pricing structures, hindering profit and business expansion will limit the capacity for operators to expand coverage and improve services, making broadband access cost-prohibitive for millions of people.
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With his remark, Dr. Yunus hit upon one of the main themes of the book: the blurring line between profit and non-profit, business and charity when providing a social good.
There are no established thresholds for how much profit the business must be generated, how much money must be contributed to the plan, or how soon profits and contributions must happen.
Business might say it maximises profit but the truth is that most business has no clue what profit is, knows not a lot more about discounted cash flow but does in both cases know it has no hope of a positive outcome for either unless top line sales are good.
She shares, however, in the extraordinary profit margins that mining companies in Australia enjoy forty-two per cent in 2011, when business profit margins as a whole were thirteen per cent.
And even if it were, Anshan is just like any other profit-seeking business, right?
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