There’s an old adage in business: “Don’t tell me your priorities; show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what your priorities are.” In today’s data-driven environment, in which efficient resource ...

Lemmens, Aurelie, and Sunil Gupta. "Managing Churn to Maximize Profits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-020, September 2013. (Revised December 2019. Forthcoming at Marketing Science.) ...

Every pound counts at the sale barn — and sometimes, the weight loss happens long before calves ever hit the scale. For cattle producers, shrink isn’t just a biological response to stress; it’s an ...

Lynn Stout, the distinguished professor of corporate and business law at Cornell Law School, is the author of "The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, ...

Using product profitability or bottom line value creation to help determine the appropriate marketing mix is one of the more difficult metrics for management teams to accurately measure. Many ...

Your success in international business depends on the effectiveness of your operational strategies. When managing a multinational corporation, you have to align your performance targets with the ...

Econometrica publishes original articles in all branches of economics - theoretical and empirical, abstract and applied, providing wide-ranging coverage across the subject area. It promotes studies ...

A retired cardiologist, writing in the American Journal of Medicine, has claimed that there is an accelerating drive toward maximum profitability for hospitals, even nonprofits, and that this drive is ...