Author: Walter C. LabysPublisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Primary Commodity Markets and Models
Author: Walter C. LabysPublisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
World Oilseed Markets--government Intervention and Multilateral Policy Reform
Author: Thomas W. BickertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Market New Products Successfully
Author: Kevin J. ClancyPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739111796
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A mysterious blackmailer puts pressure on a cheating student Everyone on campus hates Doctor Stark, the severe woman who seems to take sadistic pleasure from doling out D's and F's on her infamous chemistry exams. Never before has Shea had so much trouble in school, and never before has she considered something so awful as cheating, but this time she has no choice. Her scholarship is riding on the class, and losing the scholarship would ruin her. Shea sneaks into Stark's classroom and, terrified, makes a copy of tomorrow's exam. She thinks she's gotten away with it until the phone rings. The voice on the other end knows her secret, and promises to keep quiet if Shea follows certain instructions. As her lies overwhelm her, Shea learns that there is a much worse fate than getting a D. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
Commodity Models for Forecasting and Policy Analysis
Author: Walter C. LabysPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003846718
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Originally published in 1984 this book remains as relevant as when it was first published. At that time the oil crises of the 1970s and the growing international debt burden highlighted the extent to which events in primary commodity markets continue to influence the economies of developing and industrialized economies alike. Commodity modelling has become a valuable tool in efforts to predict and understand the behaviour of commodity markets and thereby reduce their fluctuations. This book provides an overview of the nature of the different types of commodity model as well as their diverse applications. In non-technical language the reader is introduced to the underlying modelling methodologies, including their advantages, limitations and commodity specific implications. The book will be of interest to commodity economists, traders and analysts, economic planners and those involved in agricultural, mineral and energy modelling.
Building Models for Marketing Decisions
Author: Peter S.H. LeeflangPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146154050X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
This book is about marketing models and the process of model building. Our primary focus is on models that can be used by managers to support marketing decisions. It has long been known that simple models usually outperform judgments in predicting outcomes in a wide variety of contexts. For example, models of judgments tend to provide better forecasts of the outcomes than the judgments themselves (because the model eliminates the noise in judgments). And since judgments never fully reflect the complexities of the many forces that influence outcomes, it is easy to see why models of actual outcomes should be very attractive to (marketing) decision makers. Thus, appropriately constructed models can provide insights about structural relations between marketing variables. Since models explicate the relations, both the process of model building and the model that ultimately results can improve the quality of marketing decisions. Managers often use rules of thumb for decisions. For example, a brand manager will have defined a specific set of alternative brands as the competitive set within a product category. Usually this set is based on perceived similarities in brand characteristics, advertising messages, etc. If a new marketing initiative occurs for one of the other brands, the brand manager will have a strong inclination to react. The reaction is partly based on the manager's desire to maintain some competitive parity in the mar keting variables.
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Author: Agricultural Economics Research
Author: The Org
Author: Ray FismanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069116651X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
We create organizations because we need to get a job done—something we couldn't do alone—and join them because we’re inspired by their missions (and our paycheck). But once we’re inside, these organizations rarely feel inspirational. So where did it all go wrong? In The Org, Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan explain the tradeoffs that every organization faces, arguing that this everyday dysfunction is actually inherent to the very nature of orgs. The Org diagnoses the root causes of that malfunction, beginning with the economic logic of why organizations exist in the first place, then working its way up through the org’s structure from the lowly cubicle to the CEO’s office. You'll learn: The purpose of meetings and why they will never go away Why even members of al Qaeda are required to submit travel and expense reports What managers are good for How the army and other orgs balance marching in lockstep with fostering innovation Why the hospital administration—not the heart surgeon—is more likely to save your life Why CEOs often spend more than 80 percent of their time in meetings—and why that's exactly where they should be (and why they get paid so much)
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