Besides higher rent rolls, buildings often benefit from improved operating efficiency, which also has a bottom-line benefit to owners.

As well as the bottom-line benefits, becoming more resource efficient will help businesses address resource security risks.

So what about all those earlier studies that found bottom-line benefits of benevolence?

And executives concede the bottom-line benefits of the new law will now take longer to materialize.

In addition to being an altruistic goal, his push on worker safety had bottom-line benefits.

When I asked him about the bottom-line benefits of this change, his response was blunt: "The general rule is fewer dead people is better than more dead people."

I think I have the ability to meet with corporate C.E.O.'s and help them to think through the bottom-line benefits of diversity.

Through their company, Red Barn, the Hugheses are hoping to coax naturally conservative farmers into the state program by emphasizing its bottom-line benefits.

Now, women are more interested in bottom-line benefits, he said.

"Our goal is to create jobs, but there are certain bottom-line benefits that cannot be negotiated," she said.