Category: Agribusiness, Meat, & Other Food
Whether You Call It Trading or Not, Your Company is Taking Market Positions
Introduction: Market Risk at Commodities-Driven Companies When an investor buys a stock, she is taking a position, placing a bet on the stock’s value going up so that she can sell it later for a profit. In commodities industries like food processing and mining, many executives see their companies solely...
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Millennial Meat Preferences: What am I Supposed to do with a Chuck Roast?
Something is causing an unprecedented number of millennials to eat out more than past generations, negatively affecting retail meat sales. Morgan Stanley found that 53% of millennials dine out once a week, compared to 43% of the general population. When millennials do purchase meat to prepare at home, they gravitate...
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Restructuring Sales Territories
Restructuring Sales Territories (more…)
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Bringing Analytics to Industry
In my experience, there are three crucial questions that an executive needs to be confident in answering, before committing their organization to analytics transformation - especially as it relates to working with an outside software partner. "Does their math fit our business?" "Do their people understand our business" "Can our...
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Monte Carlo: Taming The Unknown
Not all left behind from the WWII was destruction and despair; it gave birth to the first electronic programmable computer. Nicknamed the “Giant Brain”, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was born at UPenn under the supervision of Dr. John Mauchly an American physicist and Presper Eckert an Electrical Engineer. The year...
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