While American banks have emphasized profits at the expense of growth, the Japanese have pursued a policy that has favored size over profits.
But the man running CBS had a different view of Corwin's role, a view that emphasized profits instead of plaudits.
Having been grounded, as an undergraduate, in Marxist theory, he saw his main target as capitalist "systems of production" in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation that emphasized profits and technological progress with little regard for consequences..
Nor does it address BP's fractured management system or the culture that talks about safety, yet emphasized profits". The indictment of BP's corporate culture boils mostly below the surface of "A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea".
A Honeywell spokesman said "more than 90percentt of our C.E.O.'s pay is variable, at-risk and long term," emphasizing profit growth and stock appreciation.
The author describes how it embarked upon an ambitious and, for the food industry, novel strategy, emphasizing profit and value over volume and employing compensation and organization strategies to help cascade the change through the company and re-establish its innovativeness, profitability and reputation.
The industry has a for-profit culture that emphasizes profit over safety.
In contrast with the Fortune 500 list emphasizing profit, GameChangers 500 focuses on companies that maximize benefits to people and the planet.
Livengood said the company would change its strategy to emphasize profits rather than sales.
That strategy emphasizes profits ahead of revenue growth, aggressively pursuing high-growth markets overseas, and offering customers a tightly integrated bundle of hardware, software and services.
