In his new book Grow, Jim Stengel profiles the characteristics of companies whose long-term success has been based on their commitment to a purpose and set of ideals beyond making money.
Their real purpose is to set down clear guidelines about what is acceptable and what is not.
She argues that employers are not considering graduates on purpose and has set up a Facebook group, called Against Graduate Discrimination, to help others in the same boat.
Our purpose was simply to set up an orphanage, which has been set up in the Dominican Republic, and offer orphans the opportunity to receive the medical care and the physical care that they wouldnt be able to receive otherwise.
So why can't a purpose-built frame or set of monkey bars provide all of this?
Instead they set up special purpose vehicles that raised money from investors.
Developers can set a "purpose" string for each class of isolated data. iOS displays this string to users to help them understand why their data is being requested.
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While the core purpose of the Programme, set out when it was founded in 1994, remains unchanged, its new strategy clarifies the role and responsibilities of its key stakeholders, namely artists, artist residencies and the UNESCO Secretariat.
Their mood changed when it became known that no extra money had been set aside for this purpose.
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Under the second scheme, the EFSF would create a set of special-purpose vehicles financed by other investors, including sovereign-wealth funds.
In Cuba, all of it has been set aside for this purpose.
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Although some of the false claims came from genuine medical-equipment suppliers, other firms were simply fronts set up for the purpose of fleecing the programme.
The purpose of the hearing was to set deadlines for determining whether the case would go to trial, and it went on for about an hour.
Now Goldman intends to set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) so its high-net-worth clients can skirt IPO laws and get their money in before Facebook goes public.
There are no staff to recruit at present and therefore any monies set aside for this purpose can rest safely in the Treasury without fear of being spent.
The ex-CEO of Comverse Technology arranged a secret slush fund of stock options by directing grants to "phantom" employees in a special account set up for the purpose, according to federal prosecutors.
One of the most controversial aspects of the Defense Transformation Act is among its most commonsensical: The military needs to be able to train as it intends to fight -- something that it is increasingly unable to do on the lands and in the waters set aside for that purpose due to creeping (in some cases, galloping) environmental-related strictures.
Like many things in America, patents were set up with a good purpose that has been twisted beyond all recognition by large corporations.
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Capital One said it recommends customers should call if planning to use their cards while travelling abroad - but again they do not have a dedicated system set up just for this purpose.
Most of its profit now comes from constructing large solar power plants and selling them to debt-financed shell companies set up solely for the purpose of locking in a fixed yield based on electricity sales to utilities.
Superficial cost comparisons can become even more skewed if that one service requirement is permitted to be revised so as to make it less exacting after the design that meets the more demanding specification has been set for the multi-purpose airplane.
Remember: Anyone could set up a site for the purpose of collecting credit card numbers and not ship anything.
Their purpose came with a deep conviction in a set of values and the courage to act according to them.
It makes judges skeptical that the partnership was really set up for a legitimate business purpose, other than just saving taxes.
Despite paying initial lip-service to the need to counteract the debilitating oil-price cycle by saving money during the boom years, he has virtually emptied the fund set up in 1998 for that purpose.
In 2014 it intends to launch, at a cost of a few million dollars, a set of small space telescopes whose purpose will be to seek out asteroids which are easy to get to and whose orbits return them to the vicinity of Earth often enough for the accumulated spoils of a mining operation to be downloaded at frequent intervals.
The project is supported by ESA and an industrial consortium specifically set-up by ESA for this purpose.
Mr Achebe has drawn support from the publishers and academics, who say the sex scenes are central to the book and argue the purpose of literature is to mirror life rather than set moral codes.
The UNESCO National Commissions are national cooperating bodies set up by the Member States for the purpose of associating their governmental and non-governmental bodies with the work of the Organization.
The spokesman also stressed that the purpose for the stress test would be consistent with the goals set forth by Ms. Taylor in her statement.
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