Now that some political jurisdictions are beginning to open with varying interpretations of safety, it has elevated the question of when is it safe to go back to work and what is an employer’s liability? President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to mostly prevent meat packing plant closures due to legal liability concerns. Now the question of liability over COVID-19 health risks is being raised in factories, on farms and in federal agencies. Politicians are lining up in the usual way with the left defending workers and the right defending businesses. Publicity over the plight of meat fabrication workers has prompted legislation that would give both legal and undocumented farm workers enumerated rights. While the return...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.