Assignment: Dell’s Environmental Sustainability.
Company: DELL.INC
Environmental sustainability is defined as responsible interaction with the environment to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources and allow for long-term environmental quality. The practice of environmental sustainability helps to ensure that the needs of today’s population are met without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Within our Thompson text, read Chapter 9 Assurance of Learning Exercise #1 related to Dell.
Now, click on the website https://www.dell.com/en-us provided in the learning exercise description from our Thompson text, which will provide you with information to respond to the following:
Prepare a list of 5 specific policies or programs that help Dell achieve its vision of driving social and environmental change while still remaining innovative and profitable.
Describe how Dell’s environmental sustainability strategies provide valuable social benefits?
Finally, explain how Dell’s strategies fulfill customer needs in a superior fashion while simultaneously sustaining competitive advantage?
Submission Details:
Your analysis should be between 1000 words.
Incorporate a minimum of at least our course text and one non-course scholarly/peer reviewed source in your paper.
All written assignments must include a coverage page, introductory and concluding paragraphs, reference page, be double-spaced, and proper in-text citations using APA guidelines.
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CRAFTING AND
EXECUTING
STRATEGY
The Quest for
Competitive
Advantage
Concepts and Cases
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CRAFTING AND EXECUTING
STRATEGY
The Quest for Competitive
Advantage
Concepts and Cases | 23RD EDITION
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Thompson
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Strickland
III
The University
of Alabama
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About the Authors
Courtesy of Arthur A. Thompson, Jr.
Arthur A. Thompson, Jr., earned his BS and PhD degrees in economics
from The University of Tennessee, spent three years on the economics
faculty at Virginia Tech, and served on the faculty of The University of
Alabama’s College of Commerce and Business Administration for 24 years.
In 1974 and again in 1982, Dr. Thompson spent semester-long sabbaticals
as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School.
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analysis, and the economics of business enterprises. In addition to
publishing over 30 articles in some 25 different professional and trade
publications, he has authored or co-authored five textbooks and six
computer-based simulation exercises. His textbooks and strategy
simulations have been used at well over 1,000 college and university
campuses worldwide.
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