Toshiba has been unable to keep up with a price war in laptops, one of the more profitable sectors of the computer industry.
They are embedded in companies or ministries by powerful figures, and allow powerful interests to divvy up control — and thus revenue — of the country's more profitable sectors.
Writing in 1961, ICI chairman Paul Chambers pooh-poohed the notion that the company should move into expanding and more profitable sectors.
While traditional "universal" banks like Deutsche Bank and UBS have long dominated the Continent, brash independent Wall Street investment banks like Lehman, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch muscled in on more profitable sectors like trading and underwriting in recent years, both in the United States and around the globe.
The movement of resources from less to more profitable sectors increases the aggregate productivity of the economy.
For that matter, how can it be that the drug industry is so heavily regulated and yet, and yet... is among the more profitable sectors of the economy?
But if gradual economic growth is the nation's lot, the productivity gains at companies like Eaton may result in a more efficient, more profitable corporate sector -- or, in a future stretch of hard times, in companies that will not have to pull back so drastically when revenue is falling and profits are squeezed.
Jeffrey R. Immelt, the chief executive, said the company's shift into faster-growing industrial businesses and more profitable financial services sectors should produce earnings growth of at least 10percentt starting next year.
These barriers make it hard for researchers of color to justify staying in academia, especially when their skills are marketable and often more profitable in the private sector.
The mere definition of educational prerequisites as currently the case for part II shops may only lure health workers away from health facilities to a more profitable business in the retail sector.
