As businesses pivot in 2021 toward growth and new strategies, objective functions will be more important than ever to set priorities and define success.

Agreement on a single objective function enables a more rational, linear way of ratcheting up everyone’s best current thinking, minimizing the time spent on individuals’ emotions and personal ...

The input argument fun refers to an IML module that specifies a function that returns f, a vector of length m for least-squares subroutines or a scalar for other optimization subroutines. The returned ...

Leena Lankoski ¹², N. Craig Smith ², Alternative Objective Functions for Firms, Organization & Environment, Vol. 31, No. 3, Special Issue: Creating Value for ...

One topic of research that keeps popping up is the question of what the central bank objective function should be. In simpler terms, what is the target of the central ...

David Kelsey, Frank Milne, Externalities, Monopoly and the Objective Function of the Firm, Economic Theory, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Nov., 2006), pp. 565-589 ...