profit-seeking

Mr. Kay's innovation is to pair this age-old paradox with a newer one, which he calls the "profit-seeking paradox" and sees in cases like Merck and GE.

The Long Way Around Andrew Stark 2011

Stark argues for what he calls the "profit-seeking paradox" which he defines as "the best way to maximize profit is not to seek to maximize profit."

Forbes.com: News Forbes Blogs 2011

What Stark refers to as the profit-seeking paradox and the happiness paradox lie at the heart of the Rabbi's riddle, and of Eliot's admonition that in order to possess what we do not possess we must go by the way of dispossession.

Forbes.com: News Forbes Blogs 2011

And second, is a profit-seeking college more likely to mean financial bankruptcy for indebted students or, as with other commercial takeovers of public services, the academic business itself?

Letters: Critical thinking on higher education 2011

So, what I mean is that being green in the noughties is something companies have to do just to stay in the game, and which any good profit-seeking company will want to spend the least amount of money on to acheive the appearance of.

Bell Canada and the Colour of Green 2009

Why would profit-seeking banks not lend to perfectly good businesses?

George Osborne's Crony Capitalism Jamie Whyte 2011

Wouldn't good profit-seeking zookeepers have seen this as a great opportunity to save money on bear food?

Darwin WIn!! 2009

Others complained that Google's plan to charge a small fee for access would make the collection not the vast online public library that the company envisioned but just another profit-seeking digital book store.

The Problem With Success Paul Boutin 2011

That system's problems include excessive profit-seeking behavior by hospitals and insurance companies, our ill-managed patchwork of employer-sponsored plans, wrongheaded incentives for doctors and hospitals, and all the other weaknesses that develop when two-thirds of our healthcare is financed outside a rational and structured system.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: America's Real Radicals: The 40 Extremist Senators Who Voted Against Medicare RJ 2011

That system's problems include excessive profit-seeking behavior by hospitals and insurance companies, our ill-managed patchwork of employer-sponsored plans, wrongheaded incentives for doctors and hospitals, and all the other weaknesses that develop when two-thirds of our healthcare is financed outside a rational and structured system.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: America's Real Radicals: The 40 Extremist Senators Who Voted Against Medicare RJ 2011