Profit centers directly produce profit. Cost centers may indirectly produce profit but the administration has a fundamentally different view of the assets. To w

Profit centers directly produce profit. Cost centers may indirectly produce profit but the administration has a fundamentally different view of the assets. To wit: the leadership of a profit center could molest children and the administration would not notice (this is literally the source of countless headlines), while the leadership of a cost center could get staffing slashed if they use too many post-it notes (this is the source of no headlines ever).