Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which you have to write a business letter which will actually be mailed, Edelman was doing his best to make the classroom exercise jive with the real world. And in the corporate universe, takeovers and raids are not intellectual enterprises; they're business ventures which seek to turn a profit for the raider...
NONETHELESS, the Columbia Business School dean and many of his colleagues found something unsettling about Edleman's pedagogical techniques. The classroom is supposed to be a sacred refuge for higher pursuits Professors should not be in the practice of having their students turn a profit on their final exams. The paradox is a diffcult one: Edelman was literally teaching his students well, and yet he seemed to be engaging in practices inapproriate for an academic setting...
Critics say that Gilbert's copyright ideas could transform campus-based research by increasing the profit motive for professors. The free exchange of information would be restricted as scholars worry about protecting their discoveries from competitors. And connections between professors and the companies that develop their finds would tighten the ties between universities and industries, which critics fear will threaten academic freedom...
Unlike such research, which is on the cutting edge of genetics, sequencing holds little intellectual interest for the gene expert. He characterize genome mapping as "boring, assembly line work," and says that social good and the profit motive have led him to form Genome...
...interested in the final outcome. I think its a good thing to do," says Gilbert. "I am also interested in personal profit...