The Basque country has a long history of supporting co-operatives, which use business methods to meet social goals.
We describe social enterprise as the application of business methods to the solution of social problems.
Likewise, an American court in 1998 allowed "business methods" to be patented, which brought a torrent of applications.
The European Union committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium has urged the commission at least to permit business methods to be patented.
His administration uses business methods to improve everything from city services (for example, providing 24-hour public helplines) to long-term planning.
Along the way, he identifies various keys to Mr Berlusconi's success.One was the unprecedented application of modern business methods to Italian politics.
Taking his father's business methods to giddy extremes, Duveen invaded the lush but treacherously speculative field of Old Masters, then dominated by Agnew's, in London, and by Knoedler & Company, in New York — firms he routinely outsmarted for the rest of his life.
During the ascendancy of Plutarco Elías Calles, both as president and former president (1924 34), another group, also called científicos, came to power; they advocated the use of modern business methods to benefit both themselves and the nation, while stressing self-enrichment.
Acumen reinvests its profits in other companies, thus stretching the initial donations further.In this section Humble but nimble Chapter 11 beckons Open season A new binding Showdown Saved by the box Muck, brass and spleen The patient capitalist ReprintsThe notion of applying business methods to philanthropy is attractive, but does it really work in practice?
