At the height of his fame, Mark Twain was approached by an editor who was assembling a litany of insights into what he would eventually title On the Art of Writing. Never at a loss for a quip or some ...

The revenue-maximizing price is the cost at which a business will make the most revenue for a given item. In order to find the price that will maximize revenue, a business must either experiment with ...

Millions of Americans are suffering from an overwhelming dose of apathy and underachievement. Particularly in a time when leading companies are aggressively seeking confident young adults to transform ...

While shareholders are the literal owners of corporations, there is occasionally tension between shareholders and the company they own. In other words, the best interests of the shareholders are not ...

In 2006, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton noted in their 2006 Harvard Business Review article the emergence of evidence-based medicine and suggested that practice of management too could profit ...

The Economist recently declared maximizing shareholder value to be “the biggest idea in business.” It may well be the biggest idea, but it’s also “the error ...

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on May 27, 2016. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on May 27, 2016.Michael ...

There are many ways to be a minimalist. And each kind can add a lot of value to your life. You can be a “stuff minimalist” and try to get by with less stuff. You can be an “open loop minimalist” and ...

Imagine you are going to a restaurant for lunch and you see a specials board outside. Their special of the day looks good to you. Do you head in and order it or do you ask to see the rest of the menu ...