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 ...

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.