1) Juliana Acosta2) Melanie Bauer3) Eryn Eledge4) Jose Mendoza5) Erik Sharp

http://www.csrwire.com/members/12774-Wal-Mart-Stores-Inc-

Agenda

•Background•Facts on Wal-Mart•Chapter 2 and the environment•Chapter 4 and the green movement•Mini quiz•Chapter 11 and leadership•Recap and questions

Background

Facts

•# 1 retailer (WORLD OR NATION?)

•10,900 retail units

•27 different countries

•2.2 million employees

•1.3 million employees in the U.S.

Chapter 2 and The Environment

• 1) Top three on EPA’s Green Power Partnership

• 1) Implementing a number of green energy projects

• 2) Zero waste policy and renewable energy

• 2) New marketing strategy about going green

Energy Production• 3) “Americans live the least

sustainable, most wasteful lives on the planet, consuming 25 percent of the world’s energy and producing 25 percent of its waste with less than 5 percent of its population.” (pg 93)

• 4) Harnessing solar power• 4) More than 180 renewable

energy projects in operation

• 5) Implementation of distribution hubs

• 5) New and improved truck routes

• 3) “Since 2005, when the Wal-Mart trucking fleet has increased its efficiency by 60 percent. The goal set by the transportation network is a 100 percent increase by 2015.” (pg 141)

• 5) The external environment and Walmart

• 5) Sociocultural and assessing the surrounding area

Walmart Comercial

Chapter 4: The Green Movement

• 1) Committed to CSR• 1) Walmart and its

suppliers• 2) Responsibiltiy and

ethics (pg 121)• 3) “In 2010, it announced

a project to remove 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain--the equivalent of taking 3.8 million cars off the raod for a year.” (pg 229-230)

Recycling • 4) The three R’s• 4) Reusable Bags• 5) Graph on pg 149• Sustainability

Mini Quiz

•Is it fine to choose the cheaper but harmful way than being responsive for the environment and finding new way which may cost more. → “it is legal but is it also ethical” question

•Question 2•Question 3

Chapter 11 and Leadership• 2) Leadership is the ability

to influence people toward the attainment of organizationals goals

• 1) Good management leads to the future

• 3) leader’s mentioned on pg 235

• 3) “[Team members from Conservation International] suggested Wal-Mart, which buys $750 million worth of seafood a year (wholesale), should use its market leadership to help stabilize and then restore dyinf ocean fisheries, and practices that are leading to extinctions, and push for international agreements for wise management of the global ‘ocean commons.’” (pg 135)

• 5) pg 446 graph and connect to walmart

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