Analyze internal and external factors related to the business environment of Starbucks. Based on your analysis, describe the trends in corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and business ethics that will impact Starbucks. Describe the potential business ethics and regulatory issues that could impact your business. How could these ethics and regulatory issues affect your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes? How will you align your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to these business ethics and regulatory issues? How will the alignment of corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and regulatory issues you described optimize the sustainability of your business?

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

II. Trends

A. Business Environment: Analyze the current internal and external factors related to the business environment of your company. In other words, what are the internal and external factors, and how do they influence the business environment of your company?

B. Description: Based on your analysis of internal and external factors, describe the trends in corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and business ethics that will impact your business. Use CSR resources to support your response.

C. Impact: What will be the impact of these trends on your company, and how can your company prepare for the impact?

III. Ethics

A. Issues: Describe the potential business ethics and regulatory issues that could impact your business. How could these ethics and regulatory issues affect your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes?

B. Alignment: How will you align your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and regulatory issues that you described?

C. Sustainability: How will the alignment of corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and regulatory issues you described optimize the sustainability of your business?