Grant money and the security it affords individuals and institutions drive institutions to emphasize research, sometimes at the expense of other urgent but less lucrative endeavors.
As former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios notes, 'pressure from the counter-bureaucracy, the Congress, and the State and Defense Departments has driven institution building and policy reform to the back seat, while service delivery has taken over'.
There is cause for disquiet, too, over the goals and aspirations now enforced in the ever more populous, ever more instrumentally driven, institutions of higher education.
The danger with corporations having unlimited spending on electioneering is that it makes candidates more beholden to these special corporate interests to get elected and may distort the issues in favor of profit driven institutions that can afford to blanket the market place of ideas with their own.
At the same time, athletic programs can drive an institution's agenda inappropriately, particularly if alumni trustees fail to embrace their larger stewardship role beyond athletics.
But Sweden and Britain are among those in opposition, saying that unless the levy can be adopted globally, the measure will simply drive financial institutions away from the European Union.
To not lose oneself in the energy of revenge, out of a self-righteous assurance that it is only fair to retaliate with greed, hatred, and delusion when it is greed, hatred, and delusion that drive the institutions that continue to amass wealth for the few on the backs of the many.
Kat A. Barbara, Kat, in my mind, you are asking questions about the most fundamental impulse that drives collecting institutions like archives, museums and libraries: memory.
Globalisation and increasing market competitiveness have driven banking institutions toward innovativeness in their operation to gain sustainable competitive advantage.
The wave of U.S. bank megamergers will continue, driven by institutions that need to strengthen capital-markets operations.
