CASE COMPANY
The subject company of our case project is Waste Management, Inc. The Company is a North America’s leading provider of comprehensive waste management environmental services. The Company partners with its residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers and the communities it serves to manage and reduce waste at each stage from collection to disposal, while recovering valuable resources and creating clean, renewable energy. Here is some basic information:
Headquarter location: 1001 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas 77002 Website: https://investors.wm.com/investor-overview Company type: public; Symbol: NYSE: WM Major business: collection, transfer, disposal, and recovering of solid waste Primary industry classification: NAICS-56221 or SIC-4953
More Information on Industry Description
NAICS Code 56221: Waste Treatment and Disposal
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) operating waste treatment or disposal facilities (except sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities) or (2) the combined activity of collecting and/or hauling of waste materials within a local area and operating waste treatment or disposal facilities. Waste combustors or incinerators (including those that may produce byproducts, such as electricity), solid waste landfills, and compost dumps are included in this industry.
SIC CODE 4953: Refuse Systems
Description: Refuse Systems. Establishments primarily engaged in the collection and disposal of refuse by processing or destruction or in the operation of incinerators, waste treatment plants, landfills, or other sites for disposal of such materials.
REQUIREMENT:
3. External Analysis
3.1 General Environmental Analysis
3.1.1 Demographic Segment
3.1.2 Economic Segment
3.1.3 Political/Legal Segment
3.1.4 Socio-Cultural Segment
3.1.5 Technological Segment 3.1.6 Global Segment 3.1.7 Summary of General Environmental Analysis
REQUITEMENTS IN DETAILS
3. External Analysis
Hints:
A. You don’t need to have a lot of content between section title 3 and section title 3.1. Just
a few paragraphs here to introduce to readers what you will do/what the basic
arguments are in the “external analysis” section.
B. Scope of your external analysis: Primarily at domestic level (US and possibly Canada),
but still there may be some factors at global level.
C. Unit of your external analysis should be the industry. In other words, you should
analyze the environment that the whole industry is facing. In other words, always say
“the industry’s XXX” instead of “Waste Management’s XXX”, please. (But please read
the Company’s 10K Annual Reports because a lot of information regarding the
Company is actually applicable to the whole industry too.)
