Multinational Company Selection

FIN 336 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric Company Overview

Overview: This milestone will help you complete Sections I, II, and IV of the final project. You will select the multinational corporation you will examine and give rationale for your choice.

Prompt: Develop a report that analyzes one company’s approach to multinational expansion, including financial factors such as economic environments and market conditions, risk mitigation strategies, and ethical and legal practices. Use the Company List document to select a company, or reach out to your instructor early in the module to discuss options if you would like to use a different company.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Company Overview: Use the company’s website and 10-K report to support responses for this section. A. Select a company for analyzing an approach to multinational expansion. B. Describe the company’s background, including its industry and extent of its multinational reach for identifying expansion factors and corporate

strategies.

II. Economic Environments and Market Conditions A. Identify international financial markets in which the company operates, such as stock markets, bond markets, and money markets, for

explaining how the company raises capital within these markets. B. Discuss effects of the global credit crisis on the company’s ability to raise capital required to support its expansion and operations, and provide

examples to support your claims.

III. Ethical and Legal Considerations: Explain how the company is maximizing shareholders’ value while maintaining ethical and legal practices. A. Discuss the company’s ethical and legal management during the 2007–2008 crisis for evaluating its impacts on international investing. B. Analyze the impact of ethical and legal decisions on internal stakeholders, including shareholders, for identifying strengths and areas of

improvement in international expansion strategies. Provide examples to support your claims. C. Discuss the impact of the company’s ethical and legal decisions on external stakeholders, including the government, culture, and environment

into which the company expanded, for identifying strengths and areas of improvement in expansion strategies. Provide examples to support your claims.

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Cite appropriate academic references as necessary.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Company Selection Selects a company for analyzing an approach to multinational expansion

Selects a company for analyzing an approach to multinational expansion, but response contains errors or is illogical

Does not select a company for analyzing an approach to multinational expansion

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Company Background

Describes the company’s background, including its industry and extent of its multinational reach for identifying expansion factors and corporate strategies

Describes the company’s background, including its industry and extent of its multinational reach for identifying expansion factors and corporate strategies, but description is cursory or contains inaccuracies

Does not describe the company’s background

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Economic Environments and

Market Conditions: International

Financial Markets

Identifies international financial markets in which the company operates, such as stock markets, bond markets, and money markets, for explaining how the company raises capital within these markets

Identifies international financial markets in which the company operates for explaining how the company raises capital within those markets, but explanation is cursory, illogical, or missing key elements

Does not identify international financial markets in which the company operates

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Economic Environments and

Market Conditions: Global Credit Crisis

Discusses effects of the global credit crisis on the company’s ability to raise capital required to support its expansion and operations, and provides examples to support claims

Discusses effects of the global credit crisis on the company’s ability to raise capital required to support its expansion and operations, but discussion is cursory or contains inaccuracies or examples provided are illogical

Does not discuss effects of the global credit crisis on the company’s ability to raise capital required to support its expansion and operations

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Ethical and Legal Considerations: Ethical and Legal

Management

Discusses the company’s ethical and legal management during the 2007–2008 crisis for evaluating its impacts on international investing

Discusses the company’s ethical and legal management during the 2007–2008 crisis for evaluating its impacts on international investing, but discussion is cursory, inaccurate, or missing key elements

Does not discuss the company’s ethical and legal management during the 2007–2008 crisis

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Ethical and Legal Considerations:

Impact on Internal Stakeholders

Analyzes the impact of ethical and legal decisions on internal stakeholders, including shareholders, for identifying strengths and areas of improvement in international expansion strategies, and provides examples to support claims

Analyzes the impact of ethical and legal decisions on internal stakeholders, including shareholders, for identifying strengths and areas of improvement in international expansion strategies, and provides examples to support claims, but analysis or examples are cursory or illogical

Does not analyze the impact of ethical and legal decisions on internal stakeholders

13

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Ethical and Legal Considerations:

Impact on External Stakeholders

Discusses the impact of the company’s ethical and legal decisions on external stakeholders, including the government, culture, and environment into which the company expanded, for identifying strengths and areas of improvement in expansion strategies, providing examples to support claims

Discusses the impact of the company’s ethical and legal decisions on external stakeholders, including the government, culture, and environment into which the company expanded, for identifying strengths and areas of improvement in expansion strategies, and provides examples to support claims, but response or supporting examples are cursory or illogical

Does not discuss the impact of the company’s ethical and legal decisions on external stakeholders

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Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

9

Total 100%