Final Project: Long Report and Oral Presentation

For this assignment you will write a formal report and present your report to the class. The report will be approximately 15 pages long in total, and will have a formal oral presentation component that will be approximately 10 minutes long. This project can be submitted as an individual project or in group of two, and will be primarily based on secondary research.

The following are possible topics for the report:

• Is lack of properly trained and qualified employees a problem in your tourism business?
• An environmental issue: adopting environmentally friendly (or sustainable) practices in your community, workplace or organization (this excludes Starbucks)
• Corporate Social Responsibility: analysis of the advantages and disadvantages. Should your company, workplace, organization adopt such a policy? (this excludes Starbucks)
• Analysis of Social Network Sites as a viable option to a company's marketing strategy.
• Prospects for marketing a product in another country; Social and business customs of a foreign country.
• Analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of corporate online learning.
• What has been the impact of big corporations' aggressive growth on small, independent shops?
• Healthy alternatives - should your company, workplace or organization adopt a wellness policy?
• To franchise or not: starting your own business (the audience of this report would be a group of investors)

These are some possible topics-if there is a topic that is not mentioned but is of interest to you, please contact me to discuss it- NO Starbucks.