Unless you are a philanthropist running a nonprofit organization, your main motivation for being in business is to generate a healthy income. How you reach that objective, however, will depend on many ...

When a small business is first getting started, its goal may appear relatively straight forward: to make as much money as possible for its owners. But for a business to be successful long term, a new ...

Writing in the WSJ last week, economics professor Paul Rubin “takes the community organizer-in-chief to task for his dismissive comments about profit maximization” (ht/E. Frank Stephenson): In ...

This paper hinges on the distinction between "maximizing profit" and "making profit." It recounts from Adam Smith the ethical basis for profit making, and observes in Augustin Cournot why the ...

A lot of criticism has been aimed at venture capitalists the last few days. The VCs are telling their portfolio companies to get ahead of the curve and conserve cash right now, and companies are ...

Chief Justice Leo Strine of the Delaware Supreme Court just posted a fascinating article/speech to SSRN, which was apparently delivered to the Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance in November.

I recently wrote about one of the things that has gone wrong in the U.S. economy — namely, that big American corporations are no longer sharing enough of their vast wealth with their rank-and-file ...

Over the last several years, many of our small-to-medium size clients have been trying to achieve greater profit maximization by fine tuning their full scale production facility. Each has endeavored ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper we explore various criteria for risky decision making and examine the relationship among these rules, full cost pricing, and ...

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavallo, the leader in AI-powered Profit Maximization, today announced the integration of its Profit Max Platform with Infor, a global leader in ERP ...