Word: profit
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...community service clearinghouse will employa computer data bank to match Kennedy Schoolstudents with local non-profit organizations, saidChuck J. Supple, an MPA candidate who isorganizing the program in conjunction withAllison...
Rangan said this is the first time he knows ofthat B-School affiliates have conducted researchfor organizations other than corporations. "As faras I am concerned, this is the firstnot-for-profit project that we have undertaken atthe Business School," he said...
...loss. So concludes Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review. Porter examined 1,601 acquisitions made by 33 major U.S. corporations from 1950 to 1980. By last January, he found, they had dumped 53% of the ventures, rarely at a profit...
Lawyers are often seen not as guardians of the law but as sophisticated manipulators who profit from rule beating. Even the ethics counsel for the 313,000-member American Bar Association, Lisa Milord, concedes that all too many lawyers "are looking out for their own interests rather than the integrity of the legal system." The A.B.A. notes that in 1985 state courts imposed sanctions ranging from disbarment to probation on 2,396 errant practitioners, an increase of 44% since 1981. Doctors, wandering through ethical thickets freshly grown from a technology that gives them daunting new powers over life and death...
...growing market niche for its high-price, high-performance cars. Since 1980 Japanese sales of the BMW have nearly quintupled, to more than 15,000 a year, making it the top-selling foreign car. Although the company declines to release its earnings report, it claims to have made a profit from the very beginning...