It is not common knowledge that bees are the most important pollinator of food crops. Website after website (and YouTube videos) report that around a third of what we eat relies on pollination, mainly by bees (e.g., https://www.sustainweb.org/foodfacts/bees_are_important/, https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/why-bees-matter-so-much-to-humans/, https://youtu.be/YaaQUGPXtnU). In fact, when one sees a bee, that person’s...
By: Prof. Enrique Michael Flores PICKING THE RIGHT STOCK There are two main paradigms in analyzing stocks…they are fundamental analysis and technical analysis. If you have been investing already, I am sure that you have already heard of these two. If you haven’t, please look them up since I will be discussing key metrics that assume familiarity with the terms. For this article, we will focus on technical analysis. Technical Analysis: Technical...
by: Prof. Kresna Navarro-Mansueto Aside from the abrupt weight gain during the Christmas season, one noticeable effect is the soaring prices of consumer goods, especially food. One culprit is our spending behavior. During this season, we have a relatively high willingness to pay (WTP) for goods - we think of buying those that we cannot buy in the previous months. Our willingness to pay comes from the unusual high money we receive from...
by: Prof. Jesus C. Cinco, Jr. The School of Management holds the distinction of being the only college of UPC that submitted its penultimate Self-Assessment Report (SAR) for the Bachelor of Science in Management program to UPC’s Quality Assurance Committee before the December 2019 deadline. While there were favorable factors (i.e., smaller number of faculty, low turnover of administrative staff during the period in review) that led to the early...
