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Showing 1 to 20 of 2855 for “"profit"”.
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California Bookstores: Passion and Profit
… current relationship between passion and profit in the context of challenges faced by the modern bookstore. Based on interviews from nine booksellers in California, the findings demonstrate strong ties between passion and profit. Independent booksellers dedicate capacity for resilience, …
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Green profit design for lifecycle
“Green Profit” refers to economic profits generated by an environmentally sustainable business. As awareness of sustainability increases and environmental regulations become more stringent, manufacturers are faced with the challenge of making a green profit in their businesses. Recovering …
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Profitability improvement through profit mapping
… Management is seeking ways to increase its profitability. The division is experiencing a phenomenon where pulse generators and leads' product life cycle transitions may be slower than ideal. In addition, Boston Scientific is exploring ways to systematically and accurately assess its …
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Profit incentives and technological change
… of three empirical essays on the effect of profit incentives on innovation and technology adoption. Chapter 1, written with Daron Acemoglu, investigates the effect of (potential) market size on entry of new drugs and pharmaceutical innovation. Focusing on exogenous changes driven by U.S. …
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Consumer perception of the efficacy of social media branding by non-profit and for-profit organizations
… toward new consumers, and (b) determine if non-profit organizations use social media more effectively and issue stronger call to actions than for-profit organizations. This study includes a survey of 234 participants, a content analysis of ten organizations, and interviews with eight …
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Peer mentoring for-profit college students
… peer mentoring program for new students at a for-profit institution was implemented at a campus over five quarters. Peer mentors with high GPAs were matched with students for eleven weeks to help with academic success. A Business Club was created to support the mentoring program and campus …
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Profit cycle dynamics by Kawika Pierson.
… the existence, causes, and mitigation of profit cycles at an industry level. The first essay examines profit cycles by proposing that the industry-specific features of how competition acts on a firm are important determinants of how mean reversion manifests in firm earnings. The evidence …
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Sustainability of the Service-Profit Chain
… decisions have an impact on the bottom-line profits and on the market penetration of the organization. Some decisions have more impact than others do and not all such decisions are evaluated for their impact. The Service-Profit Chain (SPC) framework brings together several components like …
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A study of effective supervisor/employee communication in a not-for-profit and a for-profit organization
… supervisor/employee communication in a not-for-profit and a for-profit organization using qualitative research methods. Several studies have researched effective supervisor/employee communication at the quantitative level, but there is little qualitative research on this topic or on the four …
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Islamic banking : distribution of profit (case study)
… as an equivalent to Riba should be substituted. Profit-sharing financial institutions have been established. The research attempts to show how these institutions work, and what alternatives they rely on to substitute interest as a motivation for mobilising savings. The technique of investment of …
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Earnings persistence and profit sharing plan adoption
… prior studies investigating the determinants of profit sharing plan adoption fail to consider the effect of current earnings changes on future expected compensation payments under profit sharing that underlie the success of profit sharing in motivating employees. When current earnings changes are …
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Breakeven analysis of the profit-volume relationship
Thesis (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics and Engineering, 1949.
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Effective Corporate Governance in Not-for-profit Organisations
… corporate governance effectiveness in not-for-profit organisations by identifying and developing the types of performance indicators used in the not-forprofit sector. Only by agreement, between all affected parties, on the criteria is one able to assess corporate governance effectiveness. This …
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The rate of profit as a random variable
… about the distribution of company rates of profit: that it should be log-normal (Gibrat 1931), and that it should be gamma distributed (Farjoun and Machover 1983). <br></br><br></br>A large set of company accounts data is analysed, and partial support found for Gibrat and for a generalised …
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EVALUATING IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN NON-PROFIT CONSERVATION PROJECTS
… I review 208 projects from conservation non-profit organisations across five countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom) and within five scale-classifications to establish current practice regarding prediction and assessment of conservation and non-conservation …
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Profit maximization of a kanban-based supply chain
… This enables us to partially recover the profit when the changes are negative, or take a better advantage of changes when they are positive.
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Bio-energy system analysis: Profit, planet, and policy
Climate change has escalated in the last decade, affecting every region globally, making it one of today's most important issues. As a response to climate change, the scientific community and politicians have been advocating the shift from a fossil-based economy to a bio-based economy as one of my …
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Power vs. profit: multinational corporation–nation state interaction
… between multinational corporations which seek profits and the nation states which maximize political power. The third aim of this study is to explore the operations of the multinational corporations in the developing countries, particularly as they relate to politically important problems. …
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