The shared-value concept builds on those ideas, but it emphasizes profit-making not just as a possibility but as a priority.
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.
Blessed with proximity to the sea (and, as that patriotic French chef Robuchon emphasizes, "profiting from being near the best cuisine in the world"), the Basque country and Catalonia have nourished the new Spanish cuisine from the start.
While two Chinese durable goods firms, Lenovo and TCL, have lost money abroad after acquiring Western brands (IBM in PCs and RCA in electronics, respectively), Zhang's newly modest approach emphasizes profits.
Amazon has never emphasized profit as some short-term investors might have wished.
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.
Once Cisco's problems were impossible to ignore, Mr. Chambers moved quickly to address them, cutting annual costs by $1 billion and emphasizing profits over growth.
Then, Mr. Silva and a top economic adviser signaled that a Workers Partyy government could intervene at Petrobras and at Banco do Brasil, the country's largest commercial bank, to de-emphasize 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..
