Category: Commodity Chemicals
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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Humans or Machines: Which makes better decisions?
Experts agree the amount of damage done was relatively minor, but the episodes reopened the issue of whether we have grown too dependent on technology, specifically, automation that makes important decisions for us. There’s no doubt automation is a boon in many respects. From next-day package delivery to ATMs to...
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Restructuring Sales Territories
Restructuring Sales Territories (more…)
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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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Machine VS the Intern
This doesn’t mean that our tasks are necessarily easy to execute, but rather that they are more efficiently facilitated by gadgetry. Being a young person in San Francisco, I exploit technology to exert as little effort towards any duty I need to manage on any given day. I am infantile...
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