"As a for-profit business that's an attractive pond to go swimming in, " says Mr Beck.
But ESPN is a for-profit business, not a governmental entity, attempting to protect its brand and shareholder value.
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Whereas most house museums are nonprofits run by local preservation groups, Farnsworth House is run as a for-profit business.
BPP, a for-profit business and law school, and Regents College, a private college in London, report similarly heightened demand.
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Homeschool.com founder Elizabeth Kanna, who teaches her three daughters at home, turned her personal need for information into a for-profit business.
In other words, just as in a for-profit business, if paying more produces better execution of the goal, the higher salary produces greater value.
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To that end Judja-Sato set up a for-profit business, VidaGas, that distributes propane gas to the Ministry of Health as well as to residential and commercial customers.
It should be stressed here that as an individual running a for-profit business, Mozilo should have been free to offer customers all manner of options if willing to suffer the consequences of loans gone wrong.
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"We put every dollar of revenue or outside funding toward identifying a scalable, for-profit business model, " he says.
As for the question of whether Anshan is a profit-seeking business, the short answer is, yes, except for when it is not.
It was a response to the controversy touched off last fall by a report in the Los Angeles Times featuring a Davis, California for-profit embryo selling business that opened in 2010.
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Even if you never show a profit, you can claim your losses if you can show you had good reason to believe you might make money--a chance for a substantial profit in a speculative venture is enough--and adjusted your strategy or quit the business when it didn't pan out.
In America, a not-for-profit organisation called the Public Library of Science is employing a similar business model.
Leading up to a presentation about Return on Integrity that I was asked to do by Imagine Canada for its 2011 Canadian Business and Community Partnership Forum, here is a closer look at integrity, what it means for business and why partnerships with non-profit organizations are a good indicator of return on integrity.
David McNair, senior economic justice adviser at the charity Christian Aid, says tax havens are used in a variety of ways, but the general principle - for a business active in a number of countries - is to maximise the amount of profit made by subsidiaries based where taxes are low, at the expense of those based where taxes are high.
It was incorporated as an Illinois not-for-profit corporation in 1963 at the behest of the ABA, which is a tax-exempt business league.
Since I worked for the Federal government for 26 years starting my own business and a non-profit organization was definitely a stretch outside my comfort zone.
Most people today, even in for-profit business, are not about making a living being the best they can be.
"Be aware of your workforce and your employees' needs and wants, " says Laura Sabattini, senior director of research at Catalyst, a non-profit organization that works to expand business opportunities for women.
However, many for-profit business owners are also suing, claiming a violation of their religious beliefs.
Founded as a test-prep business, in 2000 Kaplan entered the burgeoning sector of for-profit higher education.
In Andhra Pradesh (AP), the Indian state with the most microfinance borrowers and the base for the biggest for-profit MFIs, local politicians have bullied the business to a virtual halt.
At that point, it clearly would qualify for the capital-gains rate, as profit on a sale of a long-held business.
In the for-profit world, an entrepreneur is someone who creates and runs a new business where one did not exist before.
Greenwerkz, a major for-profit dispensary in Colorado, has contacted Albany lobbying firms about the possibility of doing business in New York.
Can they keep expanding, while figuring out how to turn a profit, all the while fighting off a wide range of competition for small-business ad dollars?
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It is on the Ponoko blog (which regularly has terrific stuff for makers getting a business started) by Cassandra Glessner at SF Commonality, a San Francisco non-profit that helps small businesses with micro finance, micro-lending programs worth checking out.
For Daytner Construction Group (DCG), a high-growth, woman-led business, purpose includes consideration of profit, people, and planet in ways that take the company to ever higher levels of success while helping its people be their best and protecting the planet.
In addition, PRIs are exempted from the excess business holdings tax, generally imposed for investments that comprise more than a 20 percent interest in for-profit ventures, as well as the jeopardizing investment tax, generally imposed for investments that financially endanger the charitable work of the foundation.
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