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Select a company from the Fortune 500 Most Profitable Companies- list and evaluate its Corporate Social Responsibility performance. To do this, you need to go to the company's website and find whatever reports it may have posted there on CSR (the company website may use different terms, e.g., sustainability, community involvement, diversity, transparency, etc.)  Do a Google search to see if there have been any big scandals recently (or currently underway). Write an assessment giving your views on how well the company is addressing its social responsibilities. You should identify what are the key issues that this company SHOULD be addressing, and compare that to what you find about what they actually ARE doing. Does it sound like "window dressing" or do the programs seem substantive and effective? Do not just quote or summarize the corporate website. Be critical and show that you've done your own research and included your own original thinking in your essay. 


Reminders from professor: 
1. I suggest that when you're deciding which aspects of CSR to cover in your next Homework assignment, given the word limits, you think about which aspects are most significant for the particular industry your company is in. For example, what are the big issues related to apparel, or to electronics, or to banking. It's good to mention that there are other CSR efforts underway, or problems in other areas of a particular company's operations, but use your limited space to address the most significant CSR issues. 

2. Be sure to include sources. Even if you didn't quote directly from them, I want to see where you looked and how much research you did to find perspectives beyond the corporate report.
Give your opinion and base it on evidence. The discussion should support whatever conclusion you come to - that the company is doing a good job or not doing enough, or doing fine in some areas and not in others. Don't tell me how you feel about it - tell me what your analysis supports.