"Clearly VSP's mission is something other than maximizing profits, " says VSP general counsel Thomas Fessler.
Corporations are simply fulfilling their obligations to shareholders by maximizing profits.
Sometimes the business case is doing what users want even if that comes at the expense of maximizing profits.
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Maximizing profits in physical environments depends on an ability to capitalize on the singular strengths of the in-store shopping experience.
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Maximizing profits for your shareholders and investors is -- as a primary goal is fine and appropriate in that world.
On its face, it seems to mean that pleasing investors and maximizing profits is secondary to accruing an ever-larger community of users.
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These days I think more and more people want to use services from companies that believe in something beyond simply maximizing profits.
Neo-Malthusians argue that key economic resources remain limited and that market behavior continues to be oriented around maximizing profits by managing scarcity.
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Yep, Apple, Nike and other world leading businesses sure are tragic for maximizing profits that serve as a lure to massive job-creating investment stateside.
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Instead, investment banks should serve their shareholders and partners by maximizing profits and compensation while explicitly stating that no government aid will ever be taken should private investment dry up.
The government had denied any wrongdoing and said that it opted for allocating the blocks instead of auctioning them as it intended to increase the production of coal and maximizing profits wasn't its motive.
He made a fortune helping companies send American jobs to China, India and Mexico, maximizing profits for himself and his investors while laying off American workers, gutting companies and devastating communities here at home.
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Some of the most important items to be considered are maximizing profits from new television contracts that will be negotiated to replace those expiring following the 2010-2011 season and settling on figures for the salary cap (and thereby the percentage of league revenue players will receive) and player escrow withholdings.
Derivative traders convinced the people in the bank responsible for reporting interest rates to lie about them, thereby maximizing their profits.
His former buddy, the CEO, however has outgrown that phase and believes that a corporation survives by maximizing its profits for shareholders.
In other words, somewhere along the line, they took their assets and borrowed against them so they could invest even more, just a way of maximizing their profits.
Augusta has never been interested in maximizing its profits.
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Unfortunately, that's the mistake most people make: concentrating their positions and not maximizing their chances of making those big profits.
Some of his answers to this question: giving away up to 20% of his profits through the Brunello Cucinelli Foundation and practicing some nonprofit-maximizing labor relations.
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