Quantity: There is a direct relationship between price and quantity ... Identify potential threats, such as competing solutions, that might cut into volume or require additional expenses to thwart.

d3sign / Getty Images Maximizing stock prices and corporate profit are significant goals for any company. Both are needed for growth and reflect the company's overall health and well-being.

Sell your biz for max value. Do you want your business to be acquired? Maximize your business profit. Because your profit dictates for how much money and how quickly you can sell your small business.

Profit maximizing behavior on the part of firms is a fundamental, but rarely tested, assumption of economics. In this paper, I analyze the decisions made by an MIT trained economist running a company ...