Sentences with phrase «profit motives»

Benevolence is the extent to which a trustee is believed to want to do the right thing by the trustor aside from any profit motives.

A Retail Director has the main task of managing the multifarious activities related directly or indirectly to retail business with profit motives.

Attorneys claim this is necessary to ensure that lawyers serve the interests of their clients rather than the profit motives of investors.

Market incentives — which I understand broadly to mean not only profit motives but also the incentive to achieve private non-profit goals — pull resources into the problem of innovating better ways of doing things.

Standing in the way of change, beyond veiled profit motives, seems to be simple inertia, with 51 per cent of in - house lawyers reporting no difference in the quality of work under AFAs, while external counsel see little profit motive for adapting.

That statement was explanatory to reasoning why scaling up * is not limited * in any way other than profit motives and politics.

It would show how easy it has been for people to take over governments for ideological or profit motives when skilled operators appeal to emotion over reason.

Many of these terms have been muddied by the big publishing - services companies apparently with intent, for their own profit motives.

And this debate is frequently dogged by assumptions that Bowker's natural corporate profit motives may factor in how it's handling the pricing of ISBNs.

Politicians, ideologues, so - called libertarians, and crooks attracted by profit motives, took over the charter school experiment.

It is yet another path to education on - the - cheap driven by profit motives instead of pedagogic expertise.

letting teachers teach, treating each student as an unique individual, limiting standardized testing, banning those with profit motives from our schools, addressing poverty as a roadblock to learning, and maintaining local, community control of schools.

But I'm also holding out hope that leaders, reformers, and advocates without any profit motives whatsoever, but who are deeply invested in changing the education system, can likewise take a page from Competing Against Luck.

The media should expose these big food companies and their motives, embarrassing them and their profit motives, causing consumers to avoid their products.

Not one of them has restored us to health, and that's because each one is underpinned by profit motives, rather than scientific evidence that manipulating macronutrients, or eating specifically for your blood type, or putting your body into some kind of unnatural state, is a positive or sustainable way to live.

For Mr. Afsar Ali Miah, a Bangladeshi farmer, «Nothing comes in free anymore, without its consequence, especially if it is driven by profit motives.»

Although I am excited about the possibilities, I imagine it would be difficult to take ownership of projects, with upper management and profit motives charting the course.

I'd agree, at least in large part, that the profit motives of midwives differ from those of hospitals.

They may stand more to gain than to lose, if their creativity is subject to common good considerations rather than to corporate profit motives.

WORLD: Never doubt the psychology of healing, but yes we do live in the modern world where our psychology has also taught us to trust science and doctors... insurance companies and profit motives are another subject.

While consumers have every right to be skeptical of pharmaceutical companies» profit motives, if natural remedies actually cured cancer, then people would not be dying of cancer.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Which brings me to the release today of Fortune's annual celebrated «Change the World» list, where we highlight companies that are tackling key societal problems with the same ambition — and, importantly, sustaining profit motive — that they're pursuing their core business operations.

But the consultant contended in an email that the PBM's profit motive would benefit Meridian: «Since they have this money at stake, they will work harder to increase the use of generics.»

«It's like a venture capital firm without a profit motive,» says Russell Shilling, a former Darpa program manager who now develops educational tech at a nonprofit called Digital Promise.

Most corporations are already short on moral authority, even before you add in the profit motive.

Our entrepreneurs and businesses need to lead and police each other, and while the profit motive should and will always align with rules, we need leaders to prioritize social goods to the same degree.

Telephone companies, for example, are considered common carriers and public utilities which, generally speaking, must operate in the public interest, and less from a profit motive.

Politicians and public servants don't have the incentives to take the tough actions to control costs because they don't personally own the funds they are managing, nor do they have the profit motive to energize them.

No matter the rules, «the tremendous profit motive remains,» the authors of the report wrote, «and many will skirt the law to profit from the most vulnerable and economically distressed.»

Technology and the profit motive are creating more opportunity for entrepreneurs and better prices for consumers.

As Capital Institute founder John Fullerton points out, it is very much the capitalism Adam Smith envisioned when he wrote about the invisible hand, the profit motive and self - correcting free markets.

To these outlets, fake news was the pernicious effect of the profit motive on American journalism.

«Of course, you have to have a profit motive, but at some point, that's not enough,» he says.

First, corporate investors including Google, Rakuten, Alibaba, Comcast and others have increased their investments in venture and often don't have the same profit motive (and thus pricing motive) as traditional investors.

As for your disrespect on display towards «a profit motive», I take it part of your philosophy was receiving a salary that barely met your basic needs for a spartan living and not a dollar more, right?

Recently, he's focused on the profit motive as a powerful tool for turning hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

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«Certainly not someone with a profit motive.»

Taking a long - overdue holistic approach, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World shows business how to heal the world — not through guilt and shame, but by weaving the profit motive into this work and honorably embracing core business values that honor humanity and the planet.

The profit motive, capitalism and free enterprise are the backbone to our economic system, and as such are the key to future growth and prosperity, individually and collectively.

New Democrat MPP Peter Tabuns blamed the Wynne government's «fire sale» of Hydro One, which he said now operates on a profit motive to please shareholders.

It's gained by those who set aside the profit motive and instead possess an intrinsic desire just to know.

The profit motive that drives the wheels of the acquisitive society also «tramples upon the needy,» and upon the prophet's exposed nerves.

In addition to anxiety about the overwhelming influence of the profit motive, editors also worried about whether the power of labor organizations could develop rapidly enough to counter the autonomous industrial associations created by the NRA (January 3, 1934).

The profit motive is deadly when making more profit means refusing treatment.

It is the profit motive that fuels the system, and this system depends on competition for its efficiencies.

The main point of all my writing on this subject has been to raise our sights above what Pope John Paul II called «economism» — a view of economies driven solely by a materialist, economic understanding of self - interest, the profit motive, cupidity, and greed, and a denial of all the nobler human aspirations.

The last two good issues that Hodrick brings up are the profit motive and evil, «inhumane, exploitative labor practices.»

David Hume also argued for the positive social value of commerce based on the profit motive, although he feared unadulterated greed and thought that in commerce it was mixed with other motives.