As long as the support effort is profitable, then everyone is happy, users, shareholders, and the company itself.
Getting a loan from a financial institution is a form of partnership — they want you to succeed in your business because if your business is profitable, then you are less likely to default on your loan.
Suppose there isn't any pure-strategy deviation that's profitable, then there can't be any mixed strategy deviation that's profitable, because the highest expected return you could ever get from a mixed strategy, is one of the pure strategies in the mix, and you've already checked that none of those are profitable.
If that expansion succeeds, it should be profitable then.
"We want to make sure there's excitement for our shareholders, customers and employees, and if that means we have to be smaller to be profitable, then we're willing to make those decisions".
Protecting, preserving and saving the environment should not be a political issue, but rather a common sense, humanitarian issue as it affects everyone, but unfortunately it's all about money -- if energy-efficient autos and renewable energy can be profitable then the business community will get on board.
IG Bau, Germany's biggest construction union, and Holzmann said they agreed on a wage-savings pact under which employees will work five additional hours a week free, to be repaid again starting in the the middle of 2002, if Holzmann is profitable by then.
The industrial revolution occurred in Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries for one overwhelming reason, he argues: it was profitable there and then.
If as expected, MSNBC is profitable in 2000, then the cable channel could contribute its full share of $10 million or so.
If a slimmed down Xperia line is profitable for Sony, then that's what the company should do.
Then, it is profitable for player k1 to invite player k3 to join, therefore improving its own payoff from 0.4 to 0.6 and that of player k3 from zero to 0.2.
