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 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 ...

Every week, it seems, there’s a new financial website with just the right solution for managing your money. “We’ll bucket you.” “We’ll goal you.” “We’ll de-tax you.” “We’ll balance you.” “We’ll ...

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

Research team debuts the first deterministic streaming algorithms for non-monotone submodular maximization, delivering superior approximation ratios with minimal memory and real-time throughput on ...

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 ...