In 1969 with uncanny foresight into the future of automobile financing, Row sold his interests in Yegan and created Columbia Financial, Columbia Interstate and Columbia Life & Casualty insurance companies.
Robert Shiller won his Nobel prize, in part, for showing that the market price of shares was far more volatile than it would have been had investors had perfect foresight of the future dividends they would have received.However, the academic theories of finance that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s were built on the assumption of rationality.
Sustainable intensification of agriculture (Foresight. The Future of Food and Farming 2011) has become one of the major policy and research themes in the UK.
Exploratory foresight approaches the future as a context, whose characteristics should be anticipated in order to maintain a state of preparedness for what might happen.
Launching the government's Foresight Report: The Future of Food and Farming in 2011, he claimed we couldn't afford to turn our backs on any of the tools available to address these challenges.
The Foresight report Constructing the Future (2001)—supports and extends the recent initiatives that are designed help improve and benefit the UK construction industry both now and in the future.
Unlike the centralized environment, decision-making of market participants is now guided by price signal feedbacks and by an imperfect foresight of the future market conditions (and competitor actions) that they will face.
A society without foresight faces the future with at least one hand tied behind its back and one eye shut.
Although spliff packs aren't being sold at CVS or your local deli yet, Bernier's sculptures possess a strong foresight on the future landscape of corporate weed culture that is soon to come.
And yet, the energy demands--and economic development and profits--of our growing nation outweighed Washington's call for the US Congress to apply some foresight to the future welfare of American citizens.
By using fear more than foresight to face the future, we constrict our imaginations -- and our ability to adapt.
