The Outsized Burden Cuba is a small island country that imposes an outsized burden on U.S. politics, but this is declining. Historically, there were two problems with Cuba in the U.S.: 1) Fidel Castro’s nationalization of American-owned assets in 1959, and 2) Cuban-American exiles in Florida who influenced presidential and congressional politics. The second problem has largely receded as evidenced by some relaxations under President Obama and, more recently, a farm bill provision allowing agricultural cooperator marketing on the island (though it is a less valuable market than many U.S. farm organizations believe it to be). President Trump is now taking a hard-line approach on the first problem by enforcing a 1996 law that allows Am...
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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.