With credit widely available during the halcyon years before the Great Recession, institutions splurged on recreational facilities in a bid to attract ever more students and keep tuition revenues rolling in.
The new chief executive has the comfort of slipping into the role at a time when his predecessor had managed to pull off the trick of modernising the once stuffy atmosphere but keeping ticket, hospitality and commercial revenues rolling in.
UnitedHealth, the biggest insurer by revenue, is rolling out pay-for-performance contracts for hospitals, as well as testing its own medical homes and ACOs.Bob Atlas of Avalere Health, a consultancy, offers a curt sketch of the ACO model: "HMO wannabe".
Ballmer started it, Nadella capped it, and the revenue is rolling in.
Twitter now has finally got its revenue machine rolling thanks to its 60,000 advertisers in Q4 2014.
Next up, it looks like, is FrontierVille And as ridiculous as these games are, people love them, sometimes they get addicted to them, and the revenue keeps rolling in.
Lookout, which was just featured in a Verizon Wireless commercial, has also started bringing in revenue, recently rolling out its first premium services which include the ability to view a comprehensive list of apps that can access users private data, such as identity information, location, and messages.
But many state officials also say generations of Atlantic City governments spent lavishly while casino revenues were rolling in.
