For this assignment, you will identify corporate social responsibilities for CVS Health. CVS Health released its Prescription for a Better World report where it describes its efforts with CSR. This report identifies ways CVS is currently meeting its CSR objectives and offers insight into future goals. With hopes of expanding its CSR activities, imagine that CVS has asked for your input on its CSR program.

Refer to p. 64 in your textbook for more details: Your Management Skills Portfolio is a collection of activities specially designed to demonstrate your management knowledge and skill. Be sure to save your work. Taking

your printed portfolio for an employment interview could be helpful in obtaining a job.

The portfolio activity for this chapter is identifying corporate social responsibilities. Read the following about CVS Health and answer the questions that follow.

CVS Health is a pharmacy retail company with nearly 10,000 locations, 158,000 employees, and about $180 billion in revenue. Based in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the firm is dedicated to being a good corporate citizen. Recently, CVS Health released its Prescription for a Better World report where it describes its efforts with corporate social responsibility. This report identifies ways CVS is currently meeting its corporate social responsibility objectives and otters Insight into future goals.

Some of the recent activities have been quite impressive. In Virginia, CVS Health established the MinuteClinic that serves 60.000 veterans in a partnership with the Us Department of Veterans Affairs. The pilot program was so successful that the company has expanded it to Phoenix Success too. In the retail stores, CVS has begun increasing the number of healthier food and beverage options that line the shelves. Through its Pharmacists Teach program. the company has reached nearly 200,000 students about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.

Now the management team at CVS Health has come to you with the hope that you can help them expand their corporate social responsibility activities. Answer the following questions as you think about how you could improve CVS Health's corporate social responsibility program.

then address the following:

1. Provide three reasons why CSR is important for a retailer like CVS Health.

2. List three CSR activities CVS Health could engage in with regard to marketing.

3. List three CSR activities CVS Health could institute with regard to the employees of the company.

4. List three CSR activities CVS Health could put into effect with regard to their suppliers. Create and submit a Word document with your responses to the prompts listed above.