ECO/415 ECO 415 ECO415 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment - Sustainability PowerPoint Presentation and Paper - A+ & Original Guaranteed!

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.™

·         Lowe’s^®

·         Starbuck’s 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:

o    Identify its financial and non-financial stakeholders.

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

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

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

o    Compare 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.