Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give back to the community. They plan to volunteer on weekends. The most ambitious ones plan to first achieve financial security, cultivate connections in the business world, and then make a break for public service by pulling strings in high places to attract funding for their own non-profit...
...institution, a part of the struggle for social justice, or a corporation? In most of its operations, the University can act out all of these roles without suffering an identity crisis. But the question of divestment from Shell pits Harvard's interest in social justice against its mission of profit-making and endowment growth. The Harvard community should decide which mission will take priority...
...federal water surges toward their fields, the farmers generate hydroelectric power with it, which they then sell at market rates and pocket the profit. In Washington State, farmers in the Columbia Basin have built seven such plants, which now generate about 500 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, enough to supply power to 50,000 American homes for a year. The electricity is sold to the cities of Seattle and Tacoma and so far has produced nearly $10 million in income since the first plant went on line...
...Average profit currently earned per employee for every $1 spent on salary and benefits...
...Silicon Valley is littered with the wrecks of start-ups that failed to reach the visual-community promised land. In fact, the Palace was almost one of them. Created by Time Warner in 1995 and independent since '96, the Palace--like most of its competitors--hoped to turn a profit by charging for its software. By last winter, though, it had amassed just 300 sites and 50,000 users, and its investors were looking for a buyer to bail them...