It seemed likely that producers would maximize profits by quickly drilling more wells.
When an industrial supplier saw that offering one additional option caused a huge leap in costs, it determined that its innovation fulcrum, the complexity level at which it would maximize both profits and revenues, rested at seven options.
It would maximize lots of things.
When The Associated Press tracked down Otis Rich, a Baltimore dealer who was ensnared in one of the operations, he answered the obvious question with a telling reply: "Sina-who?" "The fully integrated model would indeed maximize profits," John Bailey observes in a coming book about the cartels, but "it also maximizes risk of exposure".
"Veolia," he added, "has offices full of people whose job it is to maximize profits".
The money is nice, but if the country was out to maximize profits, it wouldn't execute the sale as it currently intends to.
Conversely, if Firm 1 shut down and Firm 2 produced its monopoly quantity that would maximize industry profits.
Gasko doesn't necessarily want to be, or stay, small, but he never courted investors because it would mean having a "fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits, and I would basically have a legal obligation to cut corners".
For example, if Firm 2 shut down and Firm 1 produced its monopoly profits, that is, a monopoly quantity, that would maximize firm profits.
Questioned about incentives, officials at dozens of other large corporations said they owed it to shareholders to maximize profits.
Many online companies thought that Manhattan's density would work to their advantage because they would be able to maximize profits by making dozens of deliveries in a small area in one trip.
