HINGHAM OPINION: Selling Light Plant, a bad idea Nov 3, 2009
Municipal electric utilities are not driven by profit maximization and are thereby best able to serve local interests. Mr. Ted Matthews in a seemingly critical manner, noted in his recent opinion column in the Journal that the Lighting Department had incurred a deficit in its last year s operations. (Hingham Journal, MA)
Adieu, Couture. Farewell, Ready-To-Wear Oct 20, 2009
Cheap nonunion labor, giant production lines, and the shipping containerbasically everything that permitted for the explosion of Wal-Martoffered too many incentives for profit maximization, and so the garmentos skedaddled. Schmatta challenges viewers to ponder the revival of worker-based fashion economy (and, hence, a worker-based economy generally). (Slate)
NXP shoots for hefty payday with Trident deal Oct 6, 2009
An executive whose root is in venture financing, Clemmer is not interested in merely managing the business for growth but for efficiency and profit maximization. The private equity investors who grabbed 80 percent of NXP from Philips Electronics are waiting for their payday and the faster Clemmer can rationalize operations and return the company to profitability, the earlier they can float an initial public offering and rake in some profit. (EETimes)
Stimulating DSM Investment as a Product within Utility Portfolios Sep 12, 2009
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Rights vs. responsibility Aug 29, 2009
This system creates tension between profit maximization and cost of providing health care. Lack of regulation inevitably leads to insurance bureaucracies, motivated to reduce costs, to deny coverage by their fiat. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Cambodia joinsmicroloan clean-up Aug 14, 2009
While many microcredit institutions claim to take inspiration from his example, Yunus has publicly lamented the industry trend towards profit maximization over uplift of the poor. He, for one, has strongly endorsed Waterfield's new Microfinance Transparency initiative. (Asia Times Online)
Letter (June 24): Don’t let negative spin kill single-payer health care reform Jun 24, 2009
Yes, taxes would increase to pay for the system, but the anticipated savings from eliminating profit maximization and the administrative costs of the current business model would tend minimize that burden. Second, the people complaining most vociferously (except for the insurance companies and their lobbyists) would be the ones to most benefit. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Need to review existing mining law - Blay May 29, 2009
Mr Kwabena Bomfeh, Executive Director of Youth for Action Ghana, an NGO decried that most of the laws that regulated the extractive industry activities in the sub region served the objectives of profit maximization than protecting the sovereign interest of the host nations. He said countries in the sub-region including Ghana, needed strong common policies to promote human rights in mining communities and to ensure transparency and access to information that would guarantee maximum benefits to... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Nigeria: Food Prices Soar By 20 Percent - Survey Apr 13, 2009
However, some food items have dropped in price despite the mad rush for profit maximization by sellers. A medium sized basket of tomatoes which was sold at N900 during the last two festivities of Sallah and Christmas has now dropped to N600, while a basket of onion now goes for N500 as against N700. (allAfrica.com)
Recession spurs corporate social conscience: UN Apr 9, 2009
"CEOs are walking away with the feeling that it does not make sense to go for quarterly profit maximization. That plays into our kind of thinking.". The UN said recent commitments were made by Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric Co, the biggest supplier of appliances for newly built US homes, and Plano, Texas-based J.C. Penney Co, the third-largest U.S. department-store chain. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Sale of Canadiens set to unfold quickly Apr 8, 2009
1 per cent of the team, recently retained BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. to evaluate his Canadian holdings which include the team, the Bell Centre arena, and a concert production firm with a view to "profit maximization" strategies that could eventually involve a sale of one or more assets. Though Mr. Gillett owns the Bell Centre outright, 19. (Globe and Mail)
Kenya: Petroleum Conference Opens in Mombasa Mar 12, 2009
He added that it is crucial to maintain a balance between profit maximization and environmental preservation, because environmental sustainability is a prerequisite in the social-economic transformation and development agenda. The meeting brought together stakeholders in oil exploration from all the five partner states forming the East African Community. (allAfrica.com)
Theories of Action in Business Stra... Feb 25, 2009
Instead of depending on managers, they believe that markets will determine profit maximization and not the managers. Whatever methods the managers will adopt, the best performance will be the ones that survive. (Suite101.com)
