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...number of U.S.-based nonprofits has grown at twice the rate of for-profit ventures in recent years. And it's no coincidence this surge is happening as the huge and famously antiestablishment baby-boom generation starts to rattle another cage. You may be getting the itch...
...lower costs and higher profits. Because of this, Nike—and other companies with similar employment situations—should sacrifice some of their profits to pay their employees better, since the employees’ only option is to work for Nike (or to not work at all). But simply arguing that Nike has a fiduciary “duty” to employees or that it “should” return some of its profits because it has so much will be fruitless; the only thing that Nike and almost every other for-profit company cares...
...they don’t intrinsically enjoy. Organizing transportation so your peers can get to the airport is a service like any other in our economy, and it’s unclear why UC representatives should be expected to provide it on a volunteer basis. The recent rise of for-profit student businesses at Harvard—most notably Facebook, DormAid, and Unofficial Tours—demonstrates the ability of student entrepreneurs to meet service demands on campus. So, instead of asking the Council to try again, why not let some enterprising students take over this business, and receive financial...
...potential roadblock to a for-profit shuttle service (or several such services, in competition with each other) is the University’s sometimes adversarial approach to student businesses, most notably Unofficial Tours. To succeed, shuttle businesses might need certain privileges that a group like DormAid does not, such as permission to load and unload buses on campus. Because airport shuttles are a highly useful and cost-saving service for students, the University should do what it can to foster entrepreneurial success in this area, even if this means waiving its usual guidelines on student businesses. This would be especially...
...Site. The UC’s Web site needs to stop being a weak tool that serves as a link to the UC and students. Instead, it should be free to design its own destiny. By giving the Web site an endowment and organizing a crack team of for-profit business school students, the UC’s Web site will finally become a true power player by consolidating power until it finally assumes its correct role as the hegemonic ruler of the world, er, we mean, the trusty student Web portal...