Choose a worst company that interests you from the following list of 10 companies

· Students will evaluate the business environments and practices of selected companies.

· Students will evaluate the business environments of a company identified as a worst company to learn why it is not successful.

PROMPT:

Choose a worst company that interests you from the following list of 10 companies. The hyperlink should take you to the company’s website. These are companies included by Maggie McGrath in Forbes (2019) as Bottom of the Barrel companies. To give you some perspective, these worst companies were ranked as “firms that had the lowest scores in areas like worker treatment and environmental impact. In some cases, a low ranking [was] also a matter of transparency; without proper data, disclosures and standards around corporate behavior, it’s impossible to know where a company truly stands”. This term you will research and evaluate the company you choose to determine its relationship and problems in the 6 business environments in both our domestic and two foreign countries and if it has or is engaged in measures to improve its ranking.

· Bruker Corp [Webpage]

· CoreLogic [Webpage]

· Echostar [Webpage]

· GrafTech International [Webpage]

· Hain Celestial Group [Webpage]

· ICU Medical [Webpage]

· McDonalds [Webpage]

· Monster Beverage [Webpage]

· Transocean [Webpage]

· Foot Locker [Webpage]

You must select one of these 10 companies and USE this company in Assignments 1, 4 & 7.

Assignment:

For this first week’s assignment, use the Worksheet provided. You will need to do some initial research about the company you select.

1. Select the company from the list provided on the worksheet.

2. Select two countries, one from each of the lists on the worksheet.

3. Briefly explain why you believe this company, with its worst issues, is your choice as a case study to explore the 6 business environments. You do NOT need to analyze each business environment at this point. This is simply a preliminary statement, use the Worksheet.

4. Properly list in your References a source where you found the company listed as a worst company. McGrath article in Forbes mentioned above. The McGrath citation is also listed on the Worksheet, add your own.

Further Instructions:

· You will be writing about this same company in the subsequent Assignments in the course.

· Submit Assignment 1 by midnight, day 7, Week 1.

· The Grading Rubric for this assignment is on the Worksheet

GUIDE FROM PRIOR CLASS EXPERIENCE: Students, to help you with this first assignment also identify one country from each of the following lists:

FIRST COUNTRY IDENTIFIED

SECOND COUNTRY IDENTIFIED

China

Argentina

France

Australia

Germany

Brazil

Japan

Chile

India

Indonesia

Italy

New Zealand

Malaysia

Peru

Netherlands

Namibia

Russia

Ecuador

United Kingdom

South Africa

Reference:

McGrath, M. (2019, November 12). Bottom of the barrel: 92 of America’s worst citizens in 2019. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2019/11/12/bottom-of-the-barrel-92-of-americas-worst-corporate-citizens-in-2019/?sh=35aa48556fa1