On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:25:15 EDT, Stack Smasher said: > Like I said, shareholder value and profit plays a huge role in people > getting off their ass and doing something to help the general public, > seeing as how you have mostly worked at a university you don't have an > executive board screaming at you Universities have their equivalent of executive boards, trust me. And when you have almost 7,000 full time employees, the annual budget is $821M, and the R&D budget alone is $268M, the management acts the same whether it's a university or a corporation. Trust me on this one too. And yes, I'm not pulling those numbers out of a hat: http://www.vt.edu/aboutvt/universityataglance.html (And even at a quarter-billion a year, we're only #55 on the research list - there's places where the money being tossed around is even bigger, and upper management acts correspondingly....)
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