We use a specification for the payoff function in which there is a dominant strategy for own-earnings maximizing agents, located interior to and in the upper half of the strategy space.
In one world, we see a clear manifestation of burnout disorder: a business culture single-mindedly obsessed with quarterly earnings and maximizing short-term profits.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight has accused Mr. Raines and other top Fannie Mae officers of manipulating earnings to maximize their bonuses.
Although Enron's compensation and performance management system was designed to retain and reward its most valuable employees, the system contributed to a dysfunctional corporate culture that became obsessed with short-term earnings to maximize bonuses.
But there's a bit of an art to maximizing earnings, and it takes a while for newbies to get the hang of how it all works.
This view is echoed by many commentators (Friedman et al. 2008; Greider 2003; Kolp & Rea 2006) who all argue that, in order to avoid repeated business scandals, CEOs need to refocus from prioritizing shareholder wealth or maximizing earnings per share, to realizing their ethical responsibilities i.e. creating an ethical corporation that attends to all stakeholder needs.
Our hope is that, by maximizing earnings from their crops, coffee and cocoa farmers will ultimately leave poverty behind.
We work tirelessly to earn our customers' trust and business by solving their problems, maximizing their earnings or lowering their costs.
Others will take the opposite approach, forgoing new business that does not meet internally set profit levels in order to maximize earnings growth.
For Kanako, accepting gifts was part of maximizing her earnings.
Earning opportunities late in one's career are diminishing in quantity and value, making it more important that a player spend his prime years maximizing his earnings potential.
