Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with ...

An Excel workbook called ProfitMax.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard. The Comparative Statics Wizard is an Excel add-in that walks the user through ...

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might realize. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know. I've been writing professionally about computers, the internet, and technology ...

Unless you are a philanthropist running a nonprofit organization, your main motivation for being in business is to generate a healthy income. How you reach that objective, however, will depend on many ...

Rationality is usually defined in terms of expected utility maximization. This paper argues for defining it in terms of conditional expected utility maximization by showing this conception's superior ...

Let me give you an example of time maximization. Randy Boll, like most people, didn’t have enough time in the day to get it all done. Randy was already one of the top 10 producers at his firm, and he ...

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