Learning Team Instructions: Sustainability Paper\t\u00a0\tSelect one of the companies from the following list and investigate its commitment to and performance in sustainable business:o Pepsi-Cola Company\u2122o Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.\u2122o Lowe’s\u00aeo Starbuck’s Coffee\u00ae Companyo Barnes &Noble\u00aeo Amazon.com, Inc. \u00a9o Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P. \u00a9o Dell Inc. \u00a9o The Walt Disney Company\u00a9o Microsoft\u00ae\u00b7\t\u00a0\tWrite a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper in which you:\t\u00a0\to Define sustainability.\t\u00a0\to Explain why sustainability is important for financial success.\t\u00a0\to Evaluate the selected business in terms of sustainability, addressing the following:\u00b7 Identify its financial and non-financial stakeholders.\u00b7 Describe how economic and non-economic business decisions may negatively or positively affect stakeholders.\u00b7\t\u00a0\tExplain how those decisions may affect profits when stakeholder reactions are taken into account.\u00b7 Identify ways in which the selected business is succeeding and ways in which it is falling short in terms of sustainability.\u00b7 Compare the selected business to other businesses within the same industry in terms of sustainability. Consider at least one of the following:\t\u00a0\to Commitment to environmental issueso Company and employee relationso Commitment to the communities in which the company operates\t\u00a0\to Product design\u00b7 Create a sustainability strategy for the selected business:\t\u00a0\to Identify ways in which it may expand upon current or past sustainability successes.\t\u00a0\to Identify opportunities for turning sustainability shortcomings into areas of sustainability growth.o Identify ways to improve stakeholder relationships.\u00b7 Explain how specific actions and policies must be implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Learning Team Instructions: Sustainability Paper \u00a0 Select one of the companies from the following list and investigate its commitment to and performance in sustainable business:o Pepsi-Cola Company\u2122o Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.\u2122o Lowe’s\u00aeo Starbuck’s Coffee\u00ae Companyo Barnes &Noble\u00aeo Amazon.com, Inc. \u00a9o Hewlett Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}