"It's a bit like the music and the film business in the sense that drug use and in particular cocaine performs a functional purpose, " Shapiro told CNN.
About the business world, yes, in the larger sense, but often trying to look at that business world from the point of view of economics rather than, say, accounting or business management.
In my case, I had a very simple business in the sense that it was just straight advisory fees.
With more regualtions on proprietary trading expected in the future, it makes sense to expand other business lines in order to remain competitive in the investment banking industry.
All these trends amount to a decoupling of business education from the most precious virtue in business, common sense.
The true hallmark of EarthLink's strategy is that acquisition prices make sense in terms of the business climate today, not rose-colored projections about the future.
It would be nice, in the larger economic sense, if this was invested in new business somewhere.
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Microsoft clearly sees customer concerns about privacy in the digital age as a business opportunity: Give consumers something they say they want in the form of greater sense of protection as they navigate the online world.
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We created vastly more jobs, and higher-paying jobs, when the business world, in a sense, could operate.
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"We've taken a sobering look at the industry and our own business, and the entire team in North America has a renewed sense of urgency and a clear view of what it will take to position this business for profitability, " said MarkFieldsMark Fields, Ford's president of the Americas and the architect of the strategy.
"We've taken a sobering look at the industry and our own business, and the entire team in North America has a renewed sense of urgency and a clear view of what it will take to position this business for profitability, " said Mark Fields , Ford's president of the Americas and the architect of the strategy.
But I think the thing that most likely, in a business sense, we will be remembered for is introducing commercial spaceship travel.
So I hope that all of us -- Democrats, Republicans, public servants, and leaders in the business community -- can keep alive a sense of seriousness, a sense of common purpose.
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But at the same time how do you fund your operation for this election, I'm thinking in the sense of do you have great business support or do you find that business people say no we've got to go into the single currency?
Complete speculation, but if margins for jet fuel are so good that an airline wants to get into the refining business, it might make sense for Catsimatidis to ship in jet fuel from elsewhere and stockpile it at the terminal.
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The move made business sense: India had tight government controls over gold, and the prices in the subcontinent were at least three times those in the Gulf.
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Alternatively, they could invest in the business, but there are limits on what makes sense.
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And in a sense Google is still in the Internet business and has to protect that space.
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Chambers has drastically reshuffled his organization, alienating and confusing many who work there, in the hopes of making sense of all the new business opportunities.
In a time of such obviously booming business, the janitors are winning more sympathy than the employers from Angelenos, who sense in the contrast between the cleaners who scrub lavatories and the bosses who use them all the unfairness of the digitally divided boom.
So, in a sense, Apple just got into the search business.
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Maintaining a 2% reserve in the MMI Fund is a prudent, make-sense business practice and although previous fund management practices may not have been able to deliver this reserve in the past, it is a welcome post-mortgage meltdown priority.
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D.s in business manage to repackage the most glaring examples of common sense and the obvious in so much math and psychology mumbo jumbo that the uninitiated are actually, if only temporarily, fooled into thinking that something profound is going on.
Real-time risk management, in its most holistic sense, remains more hope than reality, especially in view of the compartmentalized structures in which individual business units customarily manage risk on their own, says Lepus.
Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, points out that Amazon is chosen by many IT departments in order to build skills, not always because it makes the most business sense.
This business had a fat 33% operating margin (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), and its top line--goosed by immigrants sending money back home to their families--was increasing at a 14% annual clip.
Similarly, if a sense of entrepreneurship means having confidence in the talents of American business leaders, that didn't happen in the 1980s.
In that sense, Goldman may be better positioned to discuss the future of business relationships with China.
"You want enough analysis so you have a sense of where you are going without getting caught up in the business of others, " she adds.
In a sense, then, Kim has begun shifting from academia to the drug business.
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