To be a social enterprise, a company needs to embrace transparency as a guiding principle for business and engage in conversations with customers whenever and wherever they are talking.
The percentage depletion deduction was conceived in 1932 based on the accepted corporate tax principle that business taxes should be reduced in scale as the value of company equipment, structures and other assets diminish over time.
As a result, we spent a lot of time and resources to ensure that we identified and worked with entrepreneurs that not only had sound and scalable business ideas, but equally as important, that they had social and community responsibility built in as a core principle of their business model.
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But it is also misguided: it puts abstract principle over the business of governing.
This idea was revolutionary at the time, and it remains a core principle of the business today.
Just as Apple has managed phenomenal growth through semi-anonymous business relationships that radically reduce business friction (300, 000 developer relationships and counting), the same principle of using the web to reduce business friction in copyright transactions should make for a more nimble economy and faster growth.
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Many companies in Japan have long emphasized and invested in maintaining business continuity as a key IT principle.
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How that will happen and under what financial terms are essential to iron out at least in principle before starting the business.
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Since the number one principle for every Social Business is sharing, your company DNA needs to further a natural environment of encouragement, openness and honesty.
Apart from Seventh Generation CEO Jeffrey Hollender, how many leaders can you count who use CSR as a guiding principle in all their business decisions?
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In his thought-provoking Fashion: A Philosophy, philosopher Lars Svendsen emphasises the cyclical aspect of fashion, stating that the business is now driven by the principle of making those cycles as short as possible.
David McNair, senior economic justice adviser at the charity Christian Aid, says tax havens are used in a variety of ways, but the general principle - for a business active in a number of countries - is to maximise the amount of profit made by subsidiaries based where taxes are low, at the expense of those based where taxes are high.
Otherwise it risks flouting another key principle: not to steal business from private-sector financiers.
Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business advocacy group, said as a principle her organization doesn't support mandated sick leave by municipal government.
In business, we need to apply this principle too.
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This morning I had the good fortune to chair a small roundtable discussion on applying the precautionary principle in the context of large business projects such as those undertaken by the extractives industries and agriculture.
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The same principle is at work in the mortgage business these days.
Saban is a premier college football coach, but the principle seems universal to a competitive sports business where coaches are on the sidelines and players on the field make the points or runs that win or lose games.
All for carbon cutting in principle, then - but not if it might affect business as usual.
To put it into a nutshell the Principle of Least Privilege means that each individual in the business will have access only to systems and information that he needs access to for a business purpose.
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The Geneen machine ran on the principle that sound financial management could be applied successfully to any business, from rental cars to bakeries to insurance.
This principle lay behind the high spending of numerous consumer dot.com business which have now run out of money.
"In principle we are not opposed to a benefit cap, " shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna told the BBC's The Sunday Politics.
So far it is an agreement only in principle, and key details, such as whether Samsung's car-parts business and Daewoo's overseas electronics factories are included remain open.
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