While Khan appeared to be in the nuclear-proliferation business chiefly for the money, Mahmood made it clear to friends that his interest was religious: Pakistan's bomb, he told associates, was "the property of a whole Ummah," referring to the worldwide Muslim community.
But continued confirmations, from a thriving consulting corps and a proliferation of business books -- with titles like "Leading the Revolution," by Gary Hamel; "Digital Capital," by Don Tapscott, et. al.; and "Living on the Fault Line" by Geoffrey A. Moore -- helped explain away nagging doubts about the notion that rules of business had fundamentally changed.
For now the top-tier schools remain exclusive by virtue of being costly and hard to get into, but in aggregate the scarcity value of an MBA is being eroded by the proliferation of business schools and the rise of online courses open to huge numbers of students.
The proliferation of business and human rights indicators seems unstoppable.
It would not be easy for a field as diverse as "software" to agree to opt out, given the accumulation of patents at different levels of abstraction and the proliferation of business models, some of which are more patent-dependent than others.
We will see a proliferation of businesses that cater to privacy and reputation concerns.
With gold prices so high, the nation has seen a proliferation in businesses that buy jewelry for its gold value, often with no questions asked, allowing thieves to easily and quickly profit from stolen goods.
Now the Internet and the proliferation of show business magazines and television biography shows like VH1's "Behind the Music" or "E!
"It's a sign of the enlightened times that we live in," said Patrick Chung, a StartOut advisory board member, of the proliferation of gay business groups.
