But the stories get interesting when one hears of academics with Ph.D.s in technical subjects steering profit-making concerns toward stock market listings.
A. Schulman Inc., which makes plastics used in videocassettes and steering wheels, said profit for its fourth quarter was below 10 cents a share, less than it had previously forecast, compared with 2 cents a year earlier.
He promoted a quasi-collectivist philosophy, steering some company profits into roads and schools.
It is a bold idea that focuses on creating a sustainable and innovative revenue stream from transactions that generate billions of dollars in profits, steering us away from disparity, and toward social justice, equality and fairness.
There is only one hand on the tiller, steering it toward human profit – a human one.
PayPal stands to profit from steering customers into shops, perhaps by reminding them that they have unused coupons.
The company can, for example, profit by steering clients seeking insurance to the insurers it owns stakes in; at the same time, the deals may have encouraged the insurers Marsh has capitalized to pay it higher incentive fees or to send lucrative reinsurance assignments to a subsidiary, a practice known as tying.
At the hearing, Ms. Evans enumerated all the ways that finance companies like Nissan Motor influence the negotiations between dealers and customers, for example, by designing the application forms, setting limits on the dealers' share of the financing profits and steering their Web-site visitors to dealers.
"It will also enhance public safety by removing marijuana from the underground market, which is currently steering all of the profits toward drug cartels and other criminal enterprises".
She is the avowed enemy of those who made a killing by tricking and squeezing financially vulnerable Americans through the shilling of predatory loans or the illegal collection of statutorily barred or non-existent debts, racking up profits while steering the economy into a ditch.
And the biggest money to be made is in steering students to wealthy for-profit colleges, which, as the infographic warned, spend a lot of money on marketing.
