For a really rather basic economic point is that businesses will always strive to maximise profits.
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In practice, German firms are not shy about cutting their workforce to maximise profits.
There is also a concern that private providers might maximise profits by focusing on the less challenging cases.
He failed to insure or "hedge" these transactions, a ploy to maximise profits which exposes the bank to greater risk.
If their rewards are more closely tied to a company's share price, top managers should have a stronger incentive to maximise profits.
Lawyers and doctors have their own codes, but business-school professors tend to embrace Milton Friedman's claim that the only responsibility of business is to maximise profits.
But where an incumbent's monopoly goes unchallenged, there is another incentive, assuming the overall goal is to maximise profits: reducing costs while keeping prices the same for consumers.
To maximise profits, a firm hires workers so long as the value of an additional employee's output exceeds the added costs that hiring him imposes on the firm.
The German government may not be as nationalistic as the French, but, as in France, German private-sector bank returns are dragged down by rivals, such as the state banks, which do not have to maximise profits.
Academics, who live in a culture which values the free and easy movement of information (and who edit and referee papers for nothing) have long been uncomfortable bedfellows with commercial publishing companies, which want to maximise profits by charging for access to that information, and who control many (although not all) of the most prestigious scientific journals.
This way they price discriminate, market segment and thus maximise their profits.
How should you price it so as to maximise your profits?
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Retailers have different interests to balance, they want to promote and merchandise books that will make their customers happy, but also want to maximise revenue and profits.
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Or should we forget about that and just maximise the (declining) profits from what it is that we already do?
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One is that innovators jealously guard their proprietary technologies through patents, lawsuits and secrecy, to maximise for as long as possible the above-normal profits they can earn from their innovation.
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