Word: profitable
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...have said they wanted the show, which closed Saturday night, to do more than just entertain the audience. The American Repertory Theatre and the producers of the play agreed to pledge 50 percent of ticket sales from last Wednesday and Thursday's shows--about $900--to the not-for-profit Cambridge Cares About AIDS...
Started at Harvard in 1992, Peace Games is now an independent non-profit organization with more than 300 college volunteers, 80 of them Harvard students...
...dispute pits Jeffrey Katzenberg, the diminutive and determined former chairman of the Walt Disney Co. studio, against Michael Eisner, the towering and truculent chief executive and chairman of the whole Disney shebang. The fight stems from Katzenberg's claim that Disney promised him 2% of the profit from the film and other ventures he headed during his 10 years at the studio, a sum that might reach $250 million or more. Some of those projects, notably animated hits like Aladdin and The Lion King, generated billions in revenue...
...White, Aladdin) and 13 of the top 20 are Disney cartoons. "Disney's animated machine remains the most lucrative business in the filmed-entertainment mix," noted a Smith Barney report, Filmed Entertainment: It's a Small World, issued in July, "and virtually no live-action film can replicate the profit potential of this venue." The figures that movie moguls dream of have dollar signs in front, and Disney's were enough to goad any showman into finding his inner children's market. It was time for Disney rivals to wake up and smell the cash flow...
Investors at Harvard Management Company (HMC) would not comment on why they choose to invest in this stock. President of HMC Jack R. Meyer said only that his investors consider ethical questions as well as potential profit when purchasing stock...