Corporations spend a fortune studying aspects of employees' behavior, developing organizational learning, assessing performance, and providing feedbacks.
Under the direction of survey pioneer Elmo Roper, the Roper Organization conducted the landmark Fortune studies: over seventy survey projects undertaken between 1938 and 1949.
A study by the Sunlight Foundation titled Fixed Fortunes studied "200 of America's most politically active corporations [which] spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions" between 2007 and 2012.
Consider these words: "fortune," "detached study," "charitably," "enchantment," "discreet and sedate," "equanimity," "adventure," "university".
So, "Why the Chukchi?" It is our good fortune to study a relatively unknown area.
In a Fortune magazine study, the company plummeted to the bottom of a ranking of most-admired companies.
As a graduate student I had the good fortune to study with William E. Leuchtenburg, who is a thoughtful historian of 20th Century America.
He first saw her play with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project three years ago and has had the great fortune of studying the pipa with her ever since.
They also have not had the good fortune of studying history.
Yet, apart from a brief passage in which he denounces the "self-improving artist" who makes a fortune by "studying bodies" (1964 [1711]: 144), Shaftesbury does not explicitly criticize or attack any kind of art or artist.
