Bocconi University - Challenges of Agribusiness Management
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Challenges of Agribusiness Management at Coursera Overview
Duration | 5 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Credential | Certificate |
Challenges of Agribusiness Management at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Approx. 5 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Challenges of Agribusiness Management at Coursera Course details
- The goal of this course is to understand the challenges and opportunities of agribusiness nowadays. From farms to retailers, from input providers to traders, all the diverse players of this value chain interact a complex business environment in which nature, policy, technology and management strategies have to be considered to overcome future challenges and seize upcoming opportunities.
- To understand such complexity we will take Italy as a large, open-air lab in which all major phenomena and business dynamics influencing agribusiness worldwide coexist and clearly show their effects. History, heritage and tradition, technology and innovation, brilliant farmers and multinational companies, all in a constrained, diverse physical and business landscape, Italy is the perfect sampling area for agribusiness.
- In our learning experience we will benefit from the knowledge and experience of different Bocconi University Professors and several CEOs and top executives who are re-shaping agribusiness concepts.
- Course Syllabus:
- Week 1: Heritage and Excellence in Italian Agriculture
- Week 2: Challenges of the Global Agro-System
- Week 3: Innovation in Agribusiness
- Week 4: Developing new business concepts
Challenges of Agribusiness Management at Coursera Curriculum
Heritage and Excellence in Italian Agriculture
Introductory Video
AGRI Lab - Romeo and Enrica Invernizzi Agribusiness Research Initiative
Intro Week 1
Industry History and Evolution
Cultivating Excellence
Techniques and technology in an unfavourable landscape
From subsistence to complexity
Players of the agribusiness
Competitive Dynamics 1
Competitive Dynamics 2
Recap slides
Week 1
Challenges of the Global Agro-System
Intro Week 2
Population growth
The calories challenge
Income growth
Prosumerism and food scares
Perceptions and embeddedness
Sources and causes of climate changing emissions
Desertification: the fragile italian agro-system
Rising costs vs. Commoditization
Agriculture Value Added
Recap slides
Week 2
Innovation in Agribusiness
Introductory Week 3
Innovation essentials
Product and Service Innovation
Biotech
Efficiency and Big Data
Natural and Organic
Sustainability in agriculture
Enhancing ecosystem services
Sustainability through Supply Chain Integration
Recap Slide
Week 3
Developing new business concepts
Intro Week 4
Who are the new farmers?
Retail and downstream integration
Digitalization
Export (do's and dont's)
Complementarity and multifunciotanility
The benefits of cooperation
Recap Slides
Week 4
FINAL PROJECT
Wrap up - Challenges of Agribusiness Management
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