%S Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems %A R.L. Keeney %T Quantifying corporate preferences for policy analysis %X This paper discusses the quantification of preferences over ten major objectives of a corporation. The objectives concern personal, professional, and financial goals. The procedure used to elicit a ten-attribute von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function from a board member of Woodward-Clyde Consultants is presented. First the objectives and associated attributes are specified. Then the actual assessment is summarized. Uses of the results for examining policy are discussed. %N 130 %P 293-304 %B Multiple Criteria Decision Making %V 130 %C Germany %D 1976 %I Springer Berlin Heidelberg %R 10.1007/978-3-642-87563-2_21 %L iiasa14023