Discussion

Company Analysis - Presentation for Policymaker

Timeline

Company selection by Week 3, Company Analysis due Week 8, Policy Analysis due Week 12, Presentation for Policymaker due Week 14, Comprehensive Policy Brief due week 15

What to do: Review the instructions for this week's discussion posting.

Preparation

Review content from previous weeks.

Instructions

Imagine that you are a staffer for Senator Angus King, an independent senator from Maine. You have been tasked with helping Senator King get up to speed quickly on the policy landscape facing different businesses. Create a five minute presentation that you might deliver to Senator King that draws from both parts of the company paper, but emphasizes the business and government relationships. Presentation content should include:

A brief description of the company
A brief industry context/comparison
Succinct but clear explanation of at least three key (most interesting) business and government relationships discovered (e.g. regulation, taxes, litigation, incentives, etc.)

There are two options for recording the presentation:

Record a 5-minute video and post to YouTube. Submit the working YouTube video link to this discussion.
Prepare a 5-minute PowerPoint or Keynote presentation with recorded audio embedded. Submit the PowerPoint or Keynote with working audio as a file upload to this discussion.

Once your presentation is recorded, you should share it to your industry's thread (see below). In your post, share the name of the company followed by either a link to your YouTube video or an attached file.

Your presentation is due by Friday at 11:59 pm. This is a busy time for many students and it is important for student planning that we adhere to the assignment schedule so classmates have time to review the presentations for the Policy Brief due next week.

Because the upcoming Policy Analysis Synthesis relies, in part, on these presentations timely submission of the presentations is crucial. To ensure fairness and ample opportunity for classmates to view the presentations, presentations may be submitted one day late (with a one letter grade penalty) but no submissions can be accepted after this.

Citations

Factual information may be cited with a superscript number or number in parentheses (1) on the slide with the full reference for the corresponding number on a References slide at the end of the presentation.

Resources

Learn more about Senator King
For help with citations and references visit this APA resource .

Company Selections and Industries

Students will be assigned a company to analyze from the following list:

Company Name	Industry
General Mills	Misc (Food & Ag)
Snap Inc.	Communication & Finance
CVS	Healthcare
Johnson & Johnson	Healthcare
Walt Disney	Entertainment
Microsoft	Technology & Energy
Honeywell	Automotive & Aerospace
Apple	Technology & Energy
Netflix	Entertainment
Nestle	Misc (Food & Ag)
Chipotle	Misc (Food & Ag)
Canopy Growth	Healthcare
Lowe's	Retail
JP Morgan	Communication & Finance
Corporacion America Airports	Automotive & Aerospace
Facebook	Communication & Finance
Siemens	Technology & Energy
eBay	Technology & Energy
Eli Lilly	Pharmaceutical
West Pharmaceutical Services	Pharmaceutical
RLJ Lodging Trust	Misc (Real Estate)
McKesson	Pharmaceutical
Spotify	Entertainment
Cedar Fair Entertainment	Entertainment
Nike	Retail
Oshkosh Corporation	Misc (Construction)
TIAA-CREF	Communication & Finance
Marvel Entertainment	Entertainment
UnitedHealth Group	Healthcare
Palantir Technologies	Technology & Energy
AbbVie	Pharmaceutical
AEP	Technology & Energy
Target	Retail
Moderna	Healthcare
Tesla	Automotive & Aerospace
Walmart	Retail
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.	Automotive & Aerospace
Lockheed Martin	Technology & Energy
Amazon	Retail
TJX	Retail
Pfizer	Pharmaceutical
Twitter	Communication & Finance
General Motors	Automotive & Aerospace

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