MBA 665 Final Project Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
Prompt: The final project for this course is the creation of an impact of governmental action on a business paper.
For Milestone Two, you will submit the
Overview section of your final project, which continues building on what you started in Milestone One to complete Section I of the final project critical elements.
You will provide the business profile and governmental action, revised according to feedback received on Milestone One, then add organization and teams,
stakeholders, and current environment. Be sure to support all factual claims/positions with appropriate citations to your research materials.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Overview: In your role as vice president of governmental affairs, your boss, the business’s CEO, is considering retaining an outside consulting firm to assist
the company with a government issue that it is facing. Jack Harris is the president of that firm, which is called Crisis Consulting. Jack has told your boss
that he will not know if he can help until he learns more information about your company and the issue it faces. Your CEO has asked you to prepare a
memo that will provide a detailed overview of your company as well as the government action that is it facing. Address the following:
A. Business Profile: Provide a brief profile of the business and the industry it occupies, including the business’s market share and competitors, as
well as opportunities and threats facing the business and industry outside of the particular governmental action now facing the business.
B. Governmental Action: Analyze the potential governmental action or political challenge that will affect the business in this particular situation.
C. Organization and Teams: Describe the organization of the company, including divisions and project teams, and the manner in which the company
has used these teams to respond to government regulations in the past.
D. Stakeholders: Describe the company’s internal and external stakeholders. In your description, include the actions taken by the stakeholders to
date to influence the political process and advocate for the business’s interests.
E. Current Environment: Describe the current business environment, both financial and otherwise, including the initial reaction of the company to
the situation and the initial position taken by political actors and other stakeholders. Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as an 8-10 page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, oneinch margins, and sources cited in APA format.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information,
review these instructions. Rubric
Critical Elements
Overview:
Business Profile Proficient (100%)
Briefly profiles selected business
and industry it occupies, including
market share, competitors,
opportunities, and threats Needs Improvement (70%)
Profiles selected business and
industry it occupies, including
market share, competitors,
opportunities, and threats, but
response is wordy or vague
Overview:
Accurately analyzes potential
Analyzes potential governmental
Governmental
governmental action or political
action or political challenge that
Action
challenge that will affect business will affect business, but with gaps
in accuracy or detail
Overview:
Comprehensively describes the
Describes the organization of the
Organization and organization of the company,
company, including divisions and
Teams
including divisions and project
project teams, and the manner in
teams, and the manner in which
which the company has used teams
the company has used teams to
to respond to past government
respond to past government
regulations, but description is
regulations
cursory or inaccurate
Overview:
Comprehensively describes
Describes company’s internal and
Stakeholders
company’s internal and external
external stakeholders, including
stakeholders, including actions
actions taken by stakeholders to
taken by stakeholders to influence influence political process and
political process and advocate for
advocate for business interests, but
business interests
description is cursory or inaccurate
Overview: Current Comprehensively describes current Describes current business
Environment
business environment, including
environment, including financial
financial status, initial reaction of
status, initial reaction of company
company to situation, and initial
to situation, and initial position
position taken by stakeholders
taken by stakeholders, but
description is cursory or inaccurate
Articulation of
Submission has no major errors
Submission has major errors
Response
related to citations, grammar,
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
spelling, syntax, or organization
that negatively impact readability
and articulation of main ideas Not Evident (0%)
Does not profile selected business
and industry it occupies Value
15 Does not analyze potential
governmental action or political
challenge that will affect business 15 Does not describe the organization
of the company and the manner in
which the company has used teams
to respond to past government
regulations 20 Does not describe company’s
internal and external stakeholders 20 Does not describe current business
environment 20 Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that prevent understanding of
ideas
Total 10 100%
