Firm Analysis
Thisassignment is intended to encourage students to learn about how businesses usespaces and places as they grow and change over time. This assignment appears toalign with the text very well, and the student may refer to the text at manypoints throughout their analysis.
Youshall analyze one company, any company on Earth. Describe its origins, itsmarket, and the institutions that pertain to it. Discuss the location of itsorigin and the locations of markets that it has expanded into. Why has it beensuccessful, or why did it fail? Also, make weekly updates of the companysprogress (or failure) throughout the semester from news available on theinternet. For example, Facebook (now Meta) is a technology company that isheadquartered in Menlo Park, CA. It was founded in Cambridge, MA, in 2004. Metahas expanded geographically by building data processing centers in many placesin America, including DeKalb, IL.
Asyou will learn, companies have the depth that takes effort to encapsulate in awritten assignment. Therefore, it is expected that you use the semester toresearch and develop your narrative of the company/firm your select for youranalysis. This assignment has a required minimum length of 3,000 words and mustbe supported with at least 10 references. Try to incorporate a google earth image of what area the company immediately affects. If time allows at the conclusion of thesemester students will be asked to construct a brief summary of their analysisto present to the class. It is assumed that the students analysis, at thislevel, will be assisted with references to the text at many junctions as theydevelop their research.