Despite the astronomical price, rings with such pedigree could bring in a nice profit on the auction market or private sale.
Lucrative service revenue, which can often represent a multiple of the initial purchase price and bring in a net profit margin well above the companywide 11% enjoyed last year.
Hopefully this plan will defray some carp costs, bring in some jobs and earn someone a bit of profit.
"The result shows that a significant proportion of our staff do not wish to take strike action and would like to work with us in delivering our plans to bring the business into profit, " said Kevin Gilliland of the Post Office.
In addition, for-profit firms bring a few specific advantages that are worth harnessing namely around their ability to attract capital (something one would think public educators would like given the complaints about there not being enough money in public education), their ability to attract top talent, and their incentives to scale to solve the problem that the customer pays them to solve.
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Do your homework - some estancias are just private homes that begrudgingly rent rooms for profit, others are campy circuses that bring in buses of camera-snapping tourists - but do not miss a chance to live out your cowboy dreams in the Argentine pampas.
Accept has several application modules in its platform, Accept360, that help support the innovation process, and help companies figure out which products to bring to market, in which order, for the fastest time-to-profit.
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In this for-profit justice, "financial incentives are what bring people forward, " concedes Michael Hertz, director of the Justice Department's civil fraud section.
Sergio Marchionne, CEO of both Fiat and Chrysler, has managed to bring the beleaguered automaker back into profitability, with Chrysler posting its first quarterly profit in early May since it emerged from bankruptcy back in 2009. (Read Chrysler Posts First Profit Since Taxpayer Bailout).
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Kaz Hirai, on the Sony conference call, announced plans to retool the TV business to bring production to 20 million rather than 40 million, with an eye to returning to profit in FY2013.
And over time, to support these resources and processes to deliver upon the value proposition, the fourth component, a profit or revenue model, emerges the money that the organization needs to bring in to support these inputs.
To bring things more down to earth, we decided to assess the profit-making ability of small businesses in a variety of more traditional industries.
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