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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the grounds on which profit maximization has been morally condemned is the claim that businessmen are led by the logic of profit maximization to prioritize profit above all other values, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...