In justifying his attacks on Bain Capital, President Obama argues that "profit maximization" might be an appropriate goal for a private-equity firm, but not for more general public policy. This ...

Sales are the first step toward profits. Without sales, there are no profits. Profit is also called income, net profits and net income. Sales are also called revenues and result from products and ...

In capitalist economies, the primary goal of for-profit companies is to maximize their profits. This doesn't mean that companies focus on profits at the expense of everything else, though. Instead, ...

Rahmattalabi, Aida, Shahin Jabbari, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Phebe Vayanos, Max Izenberg, Ryan Brown, Eric Rice, and Milind Tambe. "Fair Influence Maximization: A Welfare Optimization Approach." ...

Given a set of available healthcare resources, surely maximizing societal health outcomes is a reasonable objective. But, is this what healthcare systems really do? And, is maximizing societal health ...

The Find: Many blame an excessive focus on maximizing shareholder value for the implosion on Wall Street, but one INSEAD professor argues that the real problem is the failure to fully understand ...