JWI515 Managerial Economics: Sustainability, Social Impact, and the Bottom Line

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Question Description

 
Think about a product or service you have recently purchased that originated from a company whose Mission includes a focus on sustainability or social impact. In other words, a company that “does well by doing good.” Then respond to the prompts below:

  • What was the name of the company and what did you purchase?
  • Why did you choose to purchase that particular product or service?
  • Did the company’s position on sustainability or social impact influence your purchase decision?
  • Compared to its competitors in the industry, how was the product priced?
  • Would you purchase the product in the future? Why or why not?
  • How is this company performing in their sector? Are they able to compete and stay true to their Mission?

 
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Goals to Change Policy or Society in Relation to Sustainability

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Common Assessment: Please focus on the following points.

  1. The essay questions require you to integrate information taken from several different (referenced) sources, to organize that information and to summarize the information, with conclusions that may be new to you.
  2. Begin with a thesis statement, (or a claim) that you will explain and justify in your essay.  Support your ideas with a rationale and evidence (not just, “I think”), logically organized throughout the essay. Your ideas and the support should be clear to the reader.
  3. Select relevant material to illustrate your points and provide specific references. Your essaymust make substantive reference to at least three resources. Do not cite, quote or reference from Wikipedia or general non-verifiable sources.  References should follow the APA format.
  4. Your essay should reflect proper grammar and syntax.

The economist Jeffrey Sachs argues that specific and achievable goals help to develop more effective policy reforms. As an example, he quotes President John F. Kennedy who gave the commencement address at American University in 1963. In that speech, Kennedy said: “By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it and to move irresistibly towards it.” Kennedy meant the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty needed to have specific and achievable goals to be effective, and Sachs meant that the clarity of the Millennium Development Goals has helped achieve policy reform. How would you use the same idea of specific and achievable goals to think about changes in policy or society in relation to sustainability?
 
(i)     Justify the relevance of Kennedy’s statement with respect to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with specific references to the role of governments and private corporations. DO NOT WRITE MORE THAN 2 SENTENCES ABOUT JFK’S STATEMENT.
 
(ii)      Identify three of the SDGs that you consider important (as they relate to either your local community or to your core values). With the three selected SDGs, evaluate the interdependence of those goals while considering how the funding needs and action plans for the goals are interconnected.
YOU MUST DISCUSS THE PLANS OR GOALS OF AT LEAST: 1 GOVERNMENT, 1 BUSINESS, AND 1 NGO.
Parameters:  The essay will be 3-4 pages, double spaced in font 11 with an additional page for references.
 
 
 
 

 
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Business global environmental

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Question Description

 
(A) For Interface Carpets, environmental sustainability has become the core of their business model and the foundation for their growth and development as a company. In line with this, explain what Interface’s Mission Zero is and then briefly describe Mt. Sustainability, the root metaphor they use to guide their pursuits. Explain how the metaphor works as a communication device and source of motivation for Interface employees. How did “one good question” move Ray Anderson and his company to pursue sustainability? What was the question and who raised it? Interface recently claimed victory on Mission Zero. What is your reaction to their claim? Where would you look for evidence to support (or refute) their claim? What is the strongest single piece of evidence you would cite that shaped your opinion? (9 points).
(B) Many business analysts and social commentators are concerned that “legal pollution” from business and industry is often destructive and even lethal. In the mid-1990s, Interface Carpets took this idea to heart in addressing the toxic emissions being legally channeled to the environment through their smokestacks and waste water pipes. Accordingly, they were one of the first businesses to go “beyond compliance” in defining their position on corporate environmentalism. What does “beyond compliance” mean? What specific steps did they take to reduce or eliminate “bad actors” in their production processes, such as benzene, ammonium derivatives, heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium), etc.? In answering, comment on how they conducted inventories of raw materials, collaborated with and revised their supply chain, and also on what limitations they encountered in working through firms in their supply chain. Ultimately, what did they have to do to meaningfully clean up their act? (8 points).
(C) The progress on environmental sustainability made by any one business firm is useful as we try to address the environmental challenges facing societies in the 21st Century but collaborations and coalitions are even more necessary to make real progress. As an example of collaborations, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have helped many firms prioritize and make a formal commitment to mitigating climate change. Based on the PriceWaterhouseCoopers study of 729 global companies, what percent of firms have prioritized climate specific action? Visit the SDG website (www.unglobalcompact.org/sdgs/17-global-goals) to review the ‘Caring for Climate’ program and the Science-Based Emission Reduction Targets Initiative. Briefly describe these platforms and state your reasoned opinion about their potential effectiveness. Walmart’s participation in the Science-Based Targets Initiative has been referred to as “A Game Changer.” (https://sciencebasedtargets.org/2016/11/04/walmarts-science-based-target-a-game-changer/). What specific commitments did Walmart make? Do you agree that this is a game changer? Why or why not? (9 points)
You should be able to answer the three-part essay question in 500 words total—no more than 2 double spaced pages (12 point font) but do not be concerned if you need a few extra words to answer the questions to your satisfaction
reference:
Ray C. Anderson(2010).Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist.New York: St. Martin’s Press
[ISBN: 978-0-312-54455-3].
 
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GEN 499: Global Societal Problem, Argument and Solution

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Question Description

 
Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review this Sample Final Paper GEN499 for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.

The topic of your essay is

  • Poverty and income inequality

Write: This Final Paper, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.
In your paper,

  • Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.
  • Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.
    • Show why this is a societal problem.
    • Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
  • Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.
    • Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
  • Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.
    • Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.
    • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)
  • Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.
    • Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.
    • Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)

The Global Societal Problem, Argument, and Solution Paper

  • Must be 1,750 to 2,250 words in length (approximately between seven and nine pages; not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
  • Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
  • Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • Must use at least eight scholarly sources.
    • Source Document Requirements:
      • Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
      • Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, and so forth. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed solution within the argument.
      • Where documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.
      • Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.
      • Religious texts must not be used.
    • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for an assignment. The Integrating Research (Links to an external site.) tutorial will offer further assistance with including supporting information and reasoning.
    • Must document in APA style any information used from sources, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.).
    • Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. References list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
    • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Good Critical Thinking Tips:

  • Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
  • Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
  • Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
  • Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.

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