The company chosen: KPMG

“Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) is anevaluation of a firm’s collective conscientiousness for social andenvironmental factors. It is typically a score that is compiledfrom data collected surrounding specific metrics related tointangible assets within the enterprise. It could be considered aform of corporate social credit score. Research shows that suchintangible assets comprise an increasing percentage of futureenterprise value. While there are many ways to think of intangibleasset metrics, these three central factors together, ESG, comprisea label that has been adopted throughout the United Statesfinancial industry.” (Wikipedia)

The three broad ESG categories are:  Environmental:Environmental sustainability and combating climate change

Social: Diversity, inclusion, human rights, consumerprotection, animal welfare

Governance: Effective management, employee relations and faircompensation, transparency re: executive compensation The ProjectManagement context for this assignment: “Examples of ways thatprojects produce value include… Creating positive social orenvironmental contributions” (SPM, pg. 7-8).

Working on this report assignment will help you understand anddemonstrate your understanding of how projects create value in thecorporate context. Details about this exercise: This is an Internetresearch assignment that you will work on in teams and create apresentation in PowerPoint. Components:

1. Facilitate a team discussion to decide what organization youwill research for this report.

You will choose an organization that is headquartered inCanada or the United States.

Be sure to choose a company that has sufficiently detailedinformation about its ESG strategy available online so that youwill be able to complete the research report described below. 2.Work with your team to coordinate and delegate the work required tocomplete the deliverable.

2. Report components: This will be a 5-6 page PowerPointpresentation. Plus, the title page. No citations page is required.Please include the following details on your cover page:

1. The report title at the top of the first page.

2. The names of all team members.

3. The name of the organization you selected. Please insert ahyperlink in the organization name to the organization’s mainwebpage.

4. The city and province/state where the organization’sheadquarters are located.

5. Please name and hyperlink the web page(s) where you havegathered the ESG strategic goal summary quote and the supportingcorporate initiatives that are included in your report. 

6. In thepresentation please include:

A direct quote from your sources that summarizes theorganization’s ESG strategic goal(s).

A list of 4 corporate initiatives named and/or described inthe documentation you reviewed that would count as projects thatsupport the ESG goal.

The initiatives may be completed (in the recent past) orplanned for completion within the next two years or so.

Please try to select examples of corporate initiatives withsummary statements that are SMART (especially using language thatis specific, measurable and/or time-bound).

For each listed initiative, add a brief statement (3-5 bulletpoints) defining important technical concepts (if applicable) andexplaining how it will support or help realize the ESG goal. Forthis you can use either verbiage taken from the organization’swebsite or use your own subject matter expertise based onresearch.