The Profit Motive

The Profit Motive in Honors Education

Motive Mechanism of Industry-University-Research Cooperation and Its Countermeasures to Conflict from Profits Allocation

IUR cooperation is the cooperation of different profit subjects. Much IUR cooperation is not successful, although it can bring about excess earnings and has endured tremendous development. The crux conflict lies in the unreasonable profits allocation way. Fair and reasonable profits allocation playing the important role of motive mechanism which facilitates cooperation of partners. This essay a...

New fund-raising scheme fuses profit with philanthropy.

A new approach to fund-raising in the battle against AIDS in Africa has appeared in the consumer marketplace. Product RED, launched by U2 lead singer Bono, went on sale this spring. Unlike traditional fund-raising vehicles, such as philanthropic foundations, RED blurs altruism, profit motive and consumer appeal. But can it overcome the ethical and practical pitfalls of fusing commerce with char...

Social Farm : Making Social Networks Work for Profit

We present the Social Farm architecture for encouraging user contribution through the profit motive. Our solution leverages the connectivity and trust relationships available in online social networks to create and operate businesses using the programming interface provided by existing online social networks. Social Farm automates the tasks of finding partners, implementing the business workflo...

Is Profit Evil? Associations of Profit with Social Harm

In opposition to foundational economic principles, four studies show that people view profit as fundamentally socially harmful. Studies 1 and 2 find a strong negative correlation between profit and perceived social value across both real firms and entire industries. This relationship holds for both perceived profit and actual profit information from public data. Study 3 confirms that this effec...

The profit motive in medicine.

The ethical implications of the growth of for-profit health care institutions are complex. Two major moral criticisms of for-profit medicine are analyzed. The first claim is that for-profit health care institutions fail to fulfill their obligations to do their fair share in providing health care to the poor and so exacerbate the problem of access to health care. The second claim is that profit ...