Exxon Mobil Corporation
How to improve decision making?
Unit 5 – Individual Project
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Exxon Mobil Corporation
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Comprehensive Analysis of a Fortune 500 Company – EXXON MOBILE
For this Individual Project you will analyze publicly available information about a Fortune 500 Company and develop an assessment of the corporate strategy and its ability to increase competitive advantage.
This assignment requires you to obtain and analyze information at the company, industry and market levels using various databases and reports found in the AIU library, in addition to at least eight (8) professional or academic peer-reviewed articles.
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Your analysis should include an in-depth review of the Company’s most recent SEC Form-10k Annual Report and Form DEF-14A Proxy Statement. These SEC filings can be found at the SEC Edgar Database located at the URL http://www.sec.gov/edgar/
A thorough analysis requires evaluation of various external stakeholders:
- Competitors
- Industry
- Vendors
- Customers
- Governmental entities
- Communities
Internal stakeholders that should be considered in the analysis include:
- Shareholders
- Board of Directors
- Management
- Employees
A comprehensive SWOT analysis should be performed relative to the Company’s ability to improve its competitive advantage.
The comprehensive analysis should include both qualitative and quantitative elements, leveraging information available in SEC Filings, business databases, and peer-reviewed articles.
Your work should demonstrate your ability to:
- Apply critical thinking skills to analyze business situations.
- Apply principles of quantitative and qualitative research to business cases.
- Describe the opportunities provided by technology for businesses.
- Appropriately use effective communication techniques.
- Apply the standard of APA style to all research and writing tasks.
You will prepare a report presenting the findings of your comprehensive analysis examining the Company’s corporate strategy and its ability to increase competitive advantage. The written report will have a body length of 10-12 pages excluding title, abstract, references and appendices. Quotation limits should be Not more than 10% of the body of the paper can be quotations, all of which must be properly attributed in APA format.
NOTE: Article collections (scholarly databases) may be accessed in the Library. Suggestions are:
- ABI Inform Global
- Academic Search Premier
- Business Source Premier
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For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
| Grading Criteria | Percentage |
| Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and writer’s message and intent are clear | 35% |
| Scholarly research which supports writer’s position properly acknowledged and cited direct quotations may not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable (excluded title page, abstract or table of contents if used, tables, exhibits, appendices, and reference page(s). Inclusion of plagiarized content will not be tolerated and may result in adverse academic consequences. | 20% |
| Critical thinking: position is well justified; logical flow; examples | 20% |
| Structure: includes introduction and conclusion; proper paragraph format and reads as a polished, academic paper or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable | 10% |
| Mechanical – no spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors | 10% |
| APA – deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual (6th Ed.) | 5% |
Reading Assignment
Editorial Board, Chapters 8 & 9
Assignment Objectives
- Apply critical thinking skills to analyze business situations.
- Apply principles of quantitative and qualitative research to business cases.
- Apply the standard of APA style to all research and writing tasks.
- Appropriately use effective communication techniques.
- Describe common biases in decision making.
- Describe the opportunities provided by technology for businesses.
- Explain the roles of emotion and fairness in decision making.
- Interpret reflective and expedient decision making.
- Recognize situations that present potential ethical issues, and develop solutions for those issues.
- Summarize the role of decision making in business.
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I attached the template that he wants us to use for this project and my company is Exxon Mobile.
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Exxon Mobil is an oil corporation with its origin in the United States but has slowly grown to expand its operations globally. Its principal business operation involves the exploration and production of natural gas and crude oil. It is also involved in the trade, manufacture, transport, and sale of natural gas, crude oil, petrochemicals, petroleum products, and other related products. Its operation in the petrochemical and energy industry is highly competitive, with all its operation aspects facing competition…
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