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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