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 ...

Maximizing profits by minimizing service and integrity can lead to business problems that eventually sink a business, as shortcuts and bad PR cause customers and employees to leave. Some of the ways ...

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 ...

As a business owner, you know that the bottom line is key. No matter what industry your business is in, optimizing profit should be at the top of your priorities. Profit is essential to the success of ...

I asked Prof. Bainbridge whether I could cross-post this from Corporate Finance Lab, and he kindly agreed: What is the purpose of a corporation? Is it, as Nobel Economics laureate Milton Friedman ...

Last week on Forbes, I wrote “Why Business Owners Should Never Let Ego Stand In The Way Of Profits,” which focused on the importance of business owners not losing sight of what’s best for their ...

Madhavan Ramanujam is a pricing expert. A partner at Simon-Kucher partners, the pre-eminent pricing consultancy, he argues in Monetizing Innovation that there are only three pricing strategies ...

"Lean Startup" author Eric Ries discusses his new book "Incorruptible" and his new definition of profit on this special ...

An Excel workbook called ProfitMax.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard. The Comparative Statics Wizard is an Excel add-in that walks the user through ...

The health of a population is dependent upon a wide variety of factors—environmental conditions, lifestyle choices and behaviors, genetics, and many more. But in their latest book, Building the Worlds ...