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 ...

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

Multiobjectivization via Helper Objectives (MHO) is the method for reformulating the original problem into a single optimization problem with more objectives by adding helper objectives. This paper ...

Although assertions have often been made about the objectives underlying the behavior of nonprofit firms, there has been no empirical confirmation of these assertions. This article proposes a way to ...

One topic of research that keeps popping up is the question of what the central bank objective function should be.