Locate a U.S.-based, publicly listed company of interest to you. This should be a company that has made a substantive amount of sustainability-related reporting or disclosures in its latest annual report on Form 10K. (Use only information published within the last two years.)
Note: You will find this type of reporting, if it exists, either in the business section of the Form 10K or as a separate document in the investor relations section of the company. Either document in either location is acceptable. Click to see an example of a separate sustainability reportLinks to an external site..
Summarize the sustainability-related reporting of your chosen company as part of your initial response to this discussion. Then, complete the following as part of your initial response:
- Prepare an organized annotation of the sustainability-related reporting made by your chosen company. (An annotation is a summary of the main points of the sustainability reporting for the company you have chosen to summarize for the class.)
- Include the following points in your annotation:
- Problem: What is/was the major challenge(s) your company faces/faced in preparing the sustainability reporting made public, presently, from what you can tell?
- Results: What was the result(s) or conclusion(s) reached regarding the strategies your chosen company has taken or is taking, not only about sustainability reporting, but also about reducing its impact on the environment, from a business point of view?
- Application: How might practitioners or your classmates potentially apply the public information disclosed by your company in the real world? Be specific.
