Various techniques have been adopted in a bid to increase efficiency in the public sector and reduce costs by transferring management control to profit-motivated private firms.
Sadly, I had sold my stake prematurely, switching into The New York Times property when a professional manager, Walter Mattson, was put in operational control and took profit margins up to normalization for the industry.
It is everything in the electric utility business, where regulators essentially control company revenues and profit.
What Nick Saban cannot control is the escalating profit scheme infecting college football or the increasing disparity between the student athlete benefits and the corporate grown-ups who profit from them.
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Driven by the public's desire for the nitty-gritty of celebrity life and celebrities' moves to control--and profit from--their images, the photos on our list are testament to a maturing market worth tens of millions.
Along with a stock symbol comes the demand to turn a profit, to control costs.
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And entrepreneurial celebrities stepping in to maintain control of--and profit from--their exposure only fuel things further.
Hackers also profit by secretly taking control of your computer and selling access to your computer to companies that use it to operate their businesses at a discount to legitimate so-called cloud-services providers.
It might be possible to argue that Bain's financial engineers miscalculated in some instances, extracting too much profit from firms under their control and saddling them with ultimately ruinous debts.
Ken Cohen, vice president of public and private affairs, explained that not only do they not control oil prices, but also that profit from the sale of gasoline and diesel fuel represents less than 3 cents out of every dollar the company earned.
Lawmakers in 36 states also have proposed legislation that would negate federal gun control initiatives, according to the non-profit Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group.
Up to 13, 500 homes in the eastern fringe of the city will now be placed under the control of three newly formed, not-for-profit, housing associations.
If they could buy hotels cheaply, they could both maintain control over the properties and resell them at a tidy profit when the market recovered.
His wife, with his support, started The Long Island Spay and Neuter Fund which is a non profit that assists their community in the humane control of the stray and feral cat population using trap and release method after being spayed or neutered, whom currently houses and cares for over 20 cats while desperately trying to find permanent homes for them.
At Venter's former genetics lab, the not-for-profit Institute for Genomic Research, managers battled over control of grant money and equipment while his 23-year marriage to renowned genomic scientist Claire Fraser (who ran the place) fell apart.
In a business where profit margins are seldom thicker than wood shavings, cost control is everything.
In next-generation computing, intelligent devices will control service on the network, and bandwidth -- once a profit center for telecom carriers -- will become a commodity, Capellas said.
Hoping to save yearly operating costs by combining utilities, the city shifted control of its water and sewer system to a not-for-profit trust that also runs the local natural gas.
It may be that as all banks have had to accumulate capital and control their costs on expenses and headcount any operation that is making a profit is encouraged to keep up the good work.
It would also be free of government control, and the businesses that build it would have to establish a for-profit service around receiving a signal.
Currently, I see profit margins almost 20 percent above their normalized level, elevated by tight expense control and minimal incremental wage expense.
Neither have control over the ecosystem of content and app sales which is where Apple derives some of the profit.
They would rather profit on a small scale, selling tapa cloth and betel nuts, without losing control of their land.
Vivian Schiller immediately distanced NPR from the remarks of Ron Schiller, who had already accepted a job at another non-profit before the video came to light, but the incident had already spiraled out of control.
Chrysler reported an annual net profit for the first time since it emerged from a bankruptcy restructuring process in 2009 that handed control of the car company to Italy's Fiat.
Dr. Berwick is a Harvard doctor and professor, but of particular interest and concern is his chairmanship of the non-profit Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the platform it has provided for his views on expanding government control over personal medical decisions.
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Last year a Tax Court judge ruled for the doc, concluding he had reason to believe he might make a profit, had made money buying and selling other boats and was done in by factors beyond his control.
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