The profit motive in medicine.

The Profit Motive in Honors Education

Motives for Choosing Medicine as a University Major: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Awareness of the motives of the students for choosing to study medicine demonstrates their understanding of the nature of this major and their expectations from their future profession. The evaluation of the volume of students who choose this major with wrong motives is necessary for educational planning of professional commitment. This study was conducted to evaluate the motives of...

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...