Research the stakeholders of the multinational corporation you have chosen for your final assessment. Create a 7–10 slide presentation that includes the following:
Analysis of the corporation’s country relations within its GVC:
Consider at least 2 countries in which the corporation conducts business (at least one country should be located in the Global South).
Describe government incentives or barriers to international trade or investment in that industry.
Describe the labor laws and worker protections in the identified countries.
Explain the perspective of the corporation in relation to its suppliers. Do they take a compliance or commitment model, or both? What are the tools (code of conduct, training, etc.) that the corporation employs to achieve these compliance and/or commitment models?
Compare the size of the corporation with that of some of its suppliers. Describe the power relationships that might exist as a result of these size differences.
Assess whether the corporation is buying high-value add products from countries in the Global South or in the Global North. Is the corporation in a joint venture, or does it own another company in a Global South?
Considering the corporation’s country relations, explain the relationship between its GVCs and the responsible governance of supply chains.
Assess whether the corporation’s country relations impact global economic development and inequalities.
Identify your organization’s external stakeholders, such as clients or customers, investors and shareholders, suppliers, government agencies, and the wider community.
Assess how the stakeholder needs and perspectives within the corporation’s country relations framework impact the decisions of supply chain managers regarding the location of product development
Formatting
Style: Your presentation can take a variety of forms (e.g., bullet points, short prose, charts, graphs, images). See the Tips for Effective PresentationsLinks to an external site. for guidance on formatting and designing a strong presentation.
Length: Your presentation should be 7-10 slides in length, excluding the intro, outro, and references slides. Points will be deducted for presentations that exceed the specified length (see rubric below for more details).
APA Formatting: Adhere to the Style Guide for headers, spacing (double-spaced), and citations.
Category: Sustainability
Instructions
This week, we will continue to work on the company analysis to determine its potential for incorporating sustainability and its attractiveness for investment. Specifically, we will evaluate the company’s business model and competitive position, its value drivers, sustainability initiatives, and its stated business strategies.
This week, we will evaluate the company’s business model and competitive position, its value drivers, sustainability initiatives, and its stated business strategies.
In a 10–12 slide presentation, complete the following:
Describe the company’s sustainable finance business model.
Describe at least two other potential finance business models the company could implement.
Evaluate the company’s sustainable finance business model as compared to the alternative models you described.
How would you describe the corporate financial strategy of the company?
To what extent does that strategy consider the company’s most material ESG issues?
Is the strategy consistent with the company’s purpose?
Does the strategy address sustainability?
What changes would you suggest so that the company can better integrate sustainability into its corporate financial strategy?
Who are the company’s main stakeholders?
What are the primary stakeholder objectives?
What are the three most important ESG materiality issues relevant to the company?
What are the financial perspectives of each issue?
What are the societal perspectives of each issue?
Who are the company’s primary competitors?
How would you rate the company’s competitive position relative to its competitors?
What key intangibles are assets to the company, as compared to its competitors?
Given what you have learned through the analysis of the company, as well as this week’s readings, explain why and how companies should connect sustainability to their competitive position, business model, intangible assets, and strategy, based on stakeholder objectives.
Formatting
Style: Your presentation can take a variety of forms (e.g., bullet points, short prose, charts, graphs, images). See the Tips for Effective PresentationsLinks to an external site. for guidance on formatting and designing a strong presentation.
Length: Your presentation should be 10-12 slides in length, excluding the intro, outro, and references slides. Points will be deducted for presentations that exceed the specified length (see rubric below for more details).
APA Formatting: Adhere to the Style Guide for headers, spacing (double-spaced), and citations.
I attatch the company research paper
Please Choose an easy and big company like apple or any big companies where information is easy to access
The final assessment for this course is an applied environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analysis and portfolio investment project. You will analyze an existing company to make an investment decision from a stakeholder (investment manager or investor) perspective. The project will allow you to apply ESG criteria in the investment decision process while allowing you to reflect on the impact of your decisions. Each week, you will complete a portion of the project, and the project will culminate with a presentation of your investment decision(s). Carefully review the complete final assessment description in the Course Assignments page on the final assessment tab so you have a full picture of what you will need to study.
Instructions
This week, you will begin the project by determining which company you will focus on for your final assessment, describing the company, and summarizing its investment strategies. To complete the assignment, read these detailed instructionsLinks to an external site..
Formatting
Style: Your paper should be written in narrative form, using complete sentences and paragraphs.
Length: Your paper should be approximately 4-5 pages in length. Points will be deducted for papers that exceed the specified length (see rubric below for more details).
SMGT 530 Week 1 Assignment
This week, you will determine which company you will focus on for your final assessment.
In a 4–5 page paper, complete the following:
Select a company you would like to study throughout the course.
The company should be one that you are interested in exploring and may include the company for which you work. Be sure that you are comfortable working with the company, as it will be difficult to change your selected company in subsequent weeks.
The company you select can be domiciled anywhere in the world.
The company should be one that generates integrated reports (IR), or one that you can reasonably study through information available publicly or through your current organization. The company can be any size and can be national or multinational.
The company can operate in any industry sector and can produce goods or services.
The company should be a for-profit organization. Nonprofit companies are not allowed for this project.
The objective of the final assessment will be to complete an ESG assessment of your selected company and then make an investment recommendation. Therefore, you do not need to overanalyze your project this week to ensure it is a “good” project. Just select a company that is interesting to you.
To successfully complete the assignments for this course, you will need access to the following information about the company:
Headquarters and operations locations
Products or services
Target markets
Number of employees
Mission and values
Sustainable finance business model
Financial strategy
Stakeholders
Relevant materiality issues
Competitors
Integrated reports
You may want to review the companies on this list as potential companies for your project.
Once you have made your selection, describe the company you would like to study. Your description should include:
The name of the company
Your rationale/reasons for selecting the company
The company’s headquarters and operations locations
The company’s products or services
The company’s target markets (i.e., where does it sell its products/services)
Number of employees
Provide basic background information about the company
Company information can be obtained from primary sources (e.g., company’s integrated reports, annual reports, proxy statements, company’s websites, industry reports).
Next, describe the company’s value and purpose.
What is the company’s mission/purpose?
In what way does the company create value for society?
How does it get paid for that value creation?
Does the company generate serious externalities? Are they positive or negative?
How do you assess the chances that these externalities will be internalized?
Given the company’s type of operations, what types of ethical dilemmas do you believe the company faces?
Based on information from the company’s reports, do you expect to see a shift in what is regarded as morally acceptable by the company?
Once you have given a description of the company, apply what you’ve learned from this week’s readings and multimedia to complete the following:
Critique two differing investment strategies as potential options for the company.
Apply measurement and reporting metrics to each investment strategy to forecast outcomes. Based on these forecasted metrics, explain which strategy you would suggest for the company.
Describe how the integrated value approach can be used to measure social and environmental externalities for the company’s investment strategy.
This is the final assessment just putting instructions dont do this!
The final assessment for this course is an applied environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analysis and portfolio investment project. You will analyze an existing company to make an investment decision from a stakeholder (investment manager or investor) perspective. The project will allow you to apply ESG criteria in the investment decision process while allowing you to reflect on the impact of your decisions. Each week, you will complete a portion of the project, and the project will culminate with a presentation of your investment decision(s).
Instructions
For your final assessment submission, you will decide whether you would invest in your chosen company or recommend the company for investment purposes. You are required to decide if the company is an attractive investment based on your weekly analysis of eight evaluation criteria:
Sustainability efforts and initiatives
Business model
Corporate strategy
Management and corporate governance practices
Impacts
Reporting quality
Financial performance
Value drivers and capital
This assessment consists of three sections. You will reference and incorporate information and conclusions from prior course assignments in each of the three sections. The first section requires you to analyze and score your chosen company on several sustainable finance considerations. In the second section, you will explain and justify your investment decision. In the third and final section, you will present your analysis and decision as you would to inform investors.
Section 1: Complete the investment decision matrix.
Section 2: Answer the questions posed under the eight categories in the detailed instructions.
Section 3: Prepare a 20–35 slide presentation that summarizes your findings.
Submit the investment decision matrix, answers to the questions, and slide presentation as three separate files.
To complete the assignment, read these detailed instructionsLinks to an external site..
Formatting
Style: Your investment decision matrix can take a variety of forms (e.g., bullet points, short prose). Your answers to the questions should be written in narrative form, using complete sentences and paragraphs. Your presentation can take a variety of forms (e.g., bullet points, short prose, charts, graphs, images).
Length: Your paper (Section 2) should be approximately 4-5 pages in length. Points will be deducted for papers that exceed the specified length (see rubric below for more details). Your presentation should be 20-35 slides in length, excluding the intro, outro, and references slides. Points will be deducted for presentations that exceed the specified length (see rubric below for more details).
APA Formatting: Adhere to the Style Guide for headers, spacing (double-spaced), and citations.
Submission: You will submit three files from the File Upload tab. Select Upload File to upload your decision matrix. Next, choose Add Another File to upload your investment decision paper. Then, select Add Another File to upload your presentation. Once all files are uploaded, select Submit Assignment.
The link to the sources and information I used is in the attached files. I was not able to interview the farm as mentioned in the Research Proposal. I just need help reorganizing my ideas and making them cohesive.
USE INFO PROVIDED NO OUTSIDE INFO
You should write a concise, yet detailed essay with a clear argument based on the course material. Support your arguments and the points you make with specific examples and details from our course material.
Do NOT write an essay that simply strings together a list of loosely-related facts and observations.
Do NOT draw on external sources outside of our course material to write your response. Use our course material. IF you draw on outside sources to answer the essay question, which is designed to assess your understanding of our class material, you will receive a 0 on the essay.
Good Luck!
1. Earlier in the course we discussed two approaches in anthropology: the interpretive approach and materialist approach. Considering these two approaches, to what degree does the concept of the ‘default framing for sustainability’ (i.e. the individualization of responsibility for environmental problems) reflect an interpretive or materialist approach to studying sustainability? In your answer, make sure to expand on at least three examples from our course to illustrate the ‘default framing’ and its relationship to sustainability. USE FILES ATTACHED ONLY FOR INFORMATION . should be around 500 words
YOU MUST BE ABLE TO GO OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD AND TAKE A PICTURE OF SOMETHING! I will tip ten extra dollars for this ;). no finding pictures online, don’t put your hand in the picture. picture must be relevant to rubric and be in English. I am from san diego California so you can lie about where you saw the picture in the paper, but the picture needs to be yours and original. USE ALL GIVEN ATTACHMENTS
I have attached the templete that has to be filled out. The assignment is based on a scenerio I have chosen which I will attach as well. I picked scenerio #3. There are prompts for each question as well that I will attach. The assignment is due tonight. I’m not feeling well and can’t afford to turn this in late. Thank you so much!
I have attached the files. Please do not use AI OR PLAGIARISM. The university uses a software Turnitin. When you provide your AI & Plagiarism report please use turnitin which is preferred. If you use any sources please reference it and use in text citations. if you have any questions I will provide. By the way I take pills that prevent me from eating and it cute my appetite. I usually don’t eat as much and plastic water bottles I use the same amount or less but use the water filtration system.
Sustainable Advocacy: We WILL bring change!
The Visual Sustainability Advocacy Presentation incorporates an implementable organizational sustainability transformation action plan. The plan should include key organizational values, purpose, and business missions for broadening leadership engagement at all levels. You should review the deliverables that must be submitted and ensure that each of the presentation content elements have been incorporated into the final deliverables.
Instructions
Presentation Content Elements
This project should represent a culmination of what you have learned and submitted as assignments throughout this course. Presentation content elements should be introduced in separate segments and must include the following:
Sustainability Change Steps: Using an applicable definition of sustainability, formulate key change steps for impacting sustainability changes in your organization or industry. (Citations required!)
Sustainability Change Framework: Generate an implementable and organizationally appropriate change framework with a rationale for application. (Frameworks can be from any SMGT course or, with faculty approval, one that you have uncovered in your research.)
Sustainability Workflow: Prepare a strategic sustainability workflow targeting 2–3 areas in an org workflow where processes and practices avail themselves for sustainability actions.
Sustainability-focused DEIA Targets: Integrate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility into shared organizational sustainability values, ensuring internal and external social justice imperatives.
Sustainability Value in Organizational Culture: Demonstrate where shared sustainability values and organizational culture allow for thriving leadership at all levels.
Sustainability Advocacy Plan: Present a sustainability advocacy plan for engaging organizational adoption. Target the sustainability stakeholders and utilize appropriate language to engage at all levels.
Peer Review Reflection: In the Week 6 Discussion, you will participate in peer reviews of project drafts. The purpose of peer review is to help refine one another’s thinking for the final presentations. You will draft a 1-page peer review reflection addressing the proffered peer feedback critiques from your Week 6 Discussion. You should combine your peer reflection with your own presentation thoughts into a single-page reflection. Reflections should address adoption, implementation, and any expectations of organizational acceptance or barriers to acceptance.
Final Project Submission
The final project submission should include the following deliverables:
Presentation of a slide deck, infomercial, infographic, or movie with voiceover to provide depth and context
5–8 slides maximum; total recorded length of 3 minutes or less
A 1-page written reflection of the project for implementation that incorporates feedback gained during the peer review process
I Have attatched the draft and outline as well, the topic will be on the hospitality industry. please incorporate the feedback i got from my peers:
Hi Bryant,
First off, great job! This draft is thought out and really does focus deeply in both organization change and integrating sustainability into every level within an organization. I am not very familiar with how the hospitality industry works so it was cool to learn a little bit more about that!
How have they developed a potential plan of action to be forecast as an organizational win for raising sustainability awareness?
You have done a really great job of detailing how you will raise organizational sustainability awareness. This is seen in you wanting to provide equal access to sustainability-related training for all employees but also your steps to engage relevant stakeholders to make a case for sustainability as it relates to business. I think you could consider a little more how you want to change the organization. You have laid out workflows that need to shift but maybe consider what needs to unfreeze in Lewin’s model and what needs to be changed in order to freeze to having a company with sustainability at the core of all it does. How will you create a sense of urgency to signal sustainability efforts need to be rushed? How will specific shifts in culture and operations result in a more sustainable future? How will you measure sustainability effort? Just some questions that I thought of!
Will there be an increase in organizational motivation due to expanded knowledge? If so, how?
What I do really love about your approach is that it assures organizational wide expansion of motivation and knowledge by proposing that all be educated on matters of sustainability. This could not only ignite passion for sustainability within employees but it could also help everyone have similar language for sustainability. I love the idea of having employees lead sustainability initiatives. Different hotels could have different sustainability challenges encouraging employees to lead from where they are could encourage innovative ways to tackle specific challenges.
How will their plan enable alignment of organizational and stakeholder values and expand corporate culture and sustainability engagement across the institution or industry?
Your plan does include stakeholder involvement and has a strong focus on building a sustainable company culture that fosters sustainability engagement. I think something you could consider is collaboration with different organizations to meet your workflow changes like circular waste management and energy efficiency. Different organizations who specialize in circular waste management could provide insight into best practices. Maybe consider a little deeper how a company will track and communicate sustainability progress (i.e through a sustainability framework maybe?).
Overall great job! Let me know if you have any questions about my responses!
Hi Bryant,
I love this topic – sustainable hospitality is not something that I would have initially considered. Lewin’s three stage model is of great use for this topic; unfreezing, changing, and refreezing is a great way to make change in a company that does not feel performative.
Your drive to provide training for employees throughout different levels of the company as well as using existing channels to promote your cause allows for your plan of action to be seamlessly integrated in an organization whose culture might be more spread out due to the nature of hospitality.
Employee led sustainability initiatives makes the most sense in this industry as hospitality is so employee-led due to its spread out geographic nature. Sustainability as a core pillar of the company allows for incentivizing employee efforts overall; more sustainable employees may be more likely for a raise or promotion. Employee led sustainability fulfills a grassroots approach and allows for better overall education in an organic and comfortable way. What sustainability initiatives will employees spearhead? I would love to hear some specifics!
Your direct reference to stakeholder involvement creates a great overall community feel. I wonder how you could increase overall stakeholder involvement? How can stakeholders who are not direct employees feel the impact of this? How can we make the consumer more aware?
Overall very well done. Thorough and well researched. I am excited to see your final presentation as well as dig into some of the articles you used to research this!
Instructions
The final assessment will consist of an analysis of the sustainability strategies of two similar (competing) companies. Select two companies and analyze the sustainability-related information reported by each company (e.g., corporate websites, sustainability reports). Then, create a comparative analysis report of the two companies that details the following:
Relevant external stakeholders identified
Main environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues reported
Connections between business purpose, strategy, and operations and the grand challenges encapsulated in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Approach to manage risk, find new business opportunities, and assure responsible governance
Evidence of double materiality—the effect of ESG issues on business activities, as well as the effect of business activities on ESG issues
Students can choose any pair of companies they wish to investigate, but here are a few paired companies with reports that include sustainability/ESG/SDG information:
Unilever vs. Nestlė
Amazon vs. Walmart
Schneider Electric vs. Siemens
Nutresa vs. Colombina
Delta Air Lines vs. JetBlue
Nike vs. Adidas
Lego vs. Mattel
Samsung Electronics vs. Huawei
Hilton Hotels & Resorts vs. Marriott
HP vs. Lenovo
Toyota vs. Ford
Bank of America vs. BBVA
The report should be approximately 12 pages, excluding the title page, exhibits (e.g., tables, figures), and references. Attribute any quotes or images not created by you, and include citations using APA 7th edition formatting.
Formatting
Style: Your report should be written in narrative form, using complete sentences and paragraphs.
Length: Your report should be approximately 12 pages in length. Points will be deducted for reports that exceed the specified length (see rubric below for more details).
APA Formatting: Adhere to the Style Guide for headers, spacing (double-spaced), and citations.