Part 1

1. Please go back to your second assignment Solve a social or environmental issue with an innovative business idea, rewrite and improve your assignment based on my notes and recommendations. *Please note that the assignment was meant to create an innovative (new) business idea that has CSR embedded at its core and that makes a profit by creating shared value (not an NGO or a charity). Please go back and see our PPT slides, videos, and reading assignments - make an appointment with me if necessary.

how to solve environmental problem of overpopulation through innovative business idea

A) Describe a social or environmental problem that needs to be solved, as described in class it needs to be simple and focused enough to be solved by your service or product. (ex: Climate Change is too vast of a subject it needs to be narrowed down, but Senior citizens in the Timmins community not having access to warm meals is more manageable). /2.5 pts

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B) Think of an innovative for profit business idea that solves the social or environmental problem in question A. You should be thinking about embedding CSR and shared value into your business idea (please refer to the 2nd and 3rd videos posted under week 3). Your idea should be precise, realistic, and should be well described. /2.5 pts

(ex: A food delivery service that provides healthy low cost meals to senior citizens in the Timmins area. Our company trains and hires homeless or unemployed youth in the community and uses electric scooters in the summer, and low fuel emission cars in the winter.)

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