Some of you are starting this course with significant personal investment experience, others have little experience. the purpose of this assignment, and a related assignment in Week 5, is to focus your attention on a small number of individual stocks and their relationship to a benchmark for performance.Construct a one-page report with the following information:Identify three stocks in the same industry. any industry is fine but you should pick one you have an interest in. your stocks must be traded on one of the two major U.S. exchanges, Nyse or Nasdaq. For example, if you selected the airline industry, you could choose ual, luv and dal. those are the ticker symbols for United, Continental, Southwest, and Delta. Provide a one paragraph description of each company. Cite your source(s) of information.Identify a benchmark for your industry. This could be a mutual fund, etf or index that focuses on the overall performance of your industry. For example, the Fidelity Select Air Transportation Portfolio (fsaix) or the Arca Airline Index (xal) would be reasonable benchmarks. Briefly explain why your benchmark is appropriate for the industry chosen. cite your source(s) of information.Identify the closing price for your three stocks and your benchmark as of Monday, Week 1. You can find these prices at finance.yahoo.com by using the historical prices function. Or you can use another source. cite your source.What is the outlook for your industry for the upcoming year? Search the internet for reports or discussion. Provide a one paragraph summary of your findings. Focus on the reasons for the outlook, not just forecasted returns. Cite your sources of information.

Proposing a Project Please review the following three projects for ABC Company. ABC Company can be a part of any industry that you have knowledge of or that interests you. You will begin the project plan in this unit by choosing one of the three projects listed below to adopt as your own. Workshop: You are a project manager and have been tasked with creating a new offsite leadership workshop that will run quarterly for at least 8 hours per workshop. The workshop will be able to seat 20 employees from ABC Company and may have differing topics and instructors from quarter to quarter. You will need to involve at least six different departments in this project.New Product: You are a new product development employee at ABC Company. You have an idea for a new product or service that your company should create and sell. After discussing it with leadership, your idea has been accepted. You have been assigned as the project manager for this project. You will need to involve at least six different departments in this project.Philanthropic Coalition: You work in the human resources (HR) department and have been tasked with the creation of a philanthropic coalition at ABC Company. In other words, ABC wants to give back to the community by using some budgeted company funds and in partnership with employee contributions and other local organizations' contributions. You are the project manager who is tasked with planning and implementing this endeavor, but you will not be the leader of the coalition once it is up and functioning satisfactorily. You will need to involve at least six different departments in this project. Then, you will prepare a preliminary project proposal of at least two pages that includes the elements below. Identify the industry that ABC Company is a part of and the project that you have chosen from the list above.Discuss your understanding of the purpose of the project and the objectives. Explain any assumptions and benefits.Provide a discussion of the constraints for this project. Provide a preliminary list of at least 20 activities associated with this project. Explain your approach to building a project team for this project. If outside sources are used, please adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however, is not necessary.

Part 1: Worksheet Activity- Using the PESTEL Analysis Worksheet, populate the third, fourth, and fifth rows: China, Japan, and Europe. Filling out these rows will help you visualize global values (such as each country's cultural and political trends) and will assist you as you work toward completion of your final project. Part 2: Composition- Write a 3-4 page paper that assesses Nimble Storage, using the PESTEL analysis and Hofstede's four cultural dimensions as a guide. Business Practice Analysis: In this part of the assessment, you will analyze the current business practices of the organization for how they operate globally. Then you will illustrate the potential benefits and challenges to the organization regarding its adoption of a more geocentric focus. Recommendations: In this part of the assessment, you will compile a series of recommendations for the leadership of the organization regarding how the organization can adopt a more geocentric focus with its business practices. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:I. PESTEL Analysis Worksheeta. Populate the third, fourth, and fifth rows (China, Japan, and Europe) as specified in the prompt.II. Business Practice Analysisa. Determine gaps in the organization’s current practices within the global market that are relevant to the human resources team of the organization.b. Illustrate the potential gains for the organization regarding their business practices if they adopt a more geocentric focus. Be sure to support your response with examples. What will be the benefit for the business of the organization should they adopt a more global approach?c. Illustrate the potential gains for the organization regarding their employee collaboration if they adopt a more geocentric focus. Be sure to support your response with examples.III. Recommendationsa. Recommend strategies or activities that the organization could implement to improve interpersonal relationships between employees and across global boundaries. Be sure to support your response with a brief cost-benefit analysis to demonstrate the value of such activities to the organization.Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format. Separately, for your PESTEL Analysis Worksheet, you must complete the third, fourth, and fifth rows and submit the worksheet.