ECO 415 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Sustainability

Learning Team Sustainability PowerPoint Presentation and Paper

Select one of the companies from the following list and investigate its commitment to and performance in sustainable business:

Pepsi-Cola Company

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Lowes

Starbucks Coffee Company

Barnes & Noble

Amazon.com, Inc.

Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P.

Dell Inc.

The Walt Disney Company

Microsoft

Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper in which you:

Define sustainability.

Explain why sustainability is important for financial success.

Evaluate the selected business in terms of sustainability, addressing the following:

oIdentify its financial and non-financial stakeholders.

oDescribe how economic and non-economic business decisions may negatively or positively affect stakeholders.

oExplain how those decisions may affect profits when stakeholder reactions are taken into account.

oIdentify ways in which the selected business is succeeding and ways in which it is falling short in terms of sustainability.

oCompare the selected business to other businesses within the same industry in terms of sustainability. Consider at least one of the following:

Commitment to environmental issues

Company and employee relations

Commitment to the communities in which the company operates

Product design

Create a sustainability strategy for the selected business:

Identify ways in which it may expand upon current or past sustainability successes.

Identify opportunities for turning sustainability shortcomings into areas of sustainability growth.

Identify ways to improve stakeholder relationships.

Explain how specific actions and policies must be implemented.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation highlighting your paper.