business interests
What companies pursue
Business interests are the financial stakes, commercial ventures, or professional concerns that benefit a person or organization.
Someone with business interests in real estate owns property or investments there.
The phrase often implies potential conflicts: She recused herself because of her business interests in the company.
In politics, business interests refers collectively to corporations and their lobbyists: Business interests opposed the new regulations.
- assetsOwned items of value
- contractsEnforceable written agreements
- stakeholdersThose with investment in outcome
- shareholdingOwnership in a corporation
- skin in the gamePersonal risk in outcome
capital · economic trends · lobby · board of directors · competitive advantage · equity · private equity · corporate governance · profit motive · intellectual property · trade secrets · mergers · conflict of interest · compliance · due diligence · fiduciary duty · vested · sustainability
- assetsproperty, cash, money, investments, bank accounts
- lobbyinglobbying, lobby, lobbyist, lobbyists, lobbying firms
- ToriesConservative Party, Tory, Toryism, Thatcherism, Thatcherites
- estate taxesestate tax, inheritance tax, death tax, death duty, death duties
- marital propertymarital property, marital assets, community property, separate property, joint property
business interestsleisure activities
Pursuits during free time
personal life · family life · avocations · pastimes · creative hobbies
business interestspublic interest
Societal welfare and benefit
public welfare · common good · social welfare · social good · general welfare
business interestshumanitarian concerns
Matters of human welfare
ethical concerns · social justice · environmental stewardship · artistic integrity · academic freedom