Capstone Project
The following scenario focuses on what is known as ‘executive risk’, which is an important aspect of organizational management as briefly explained below, and further elaborated by associated ‘explanatory and expository’ details associated with the italicized and numbered concepts (the superscript numbers associated with each italicized notion) used throughout the said description. The overall goal of this assignment is for you to estimate and substantiate the likelihood (probability) and the monetary impact (severity, or cost) of shareholder class action litigation, which is the key element of the aforementioned executive risk.
The description included herein, and associated explanatory and expository details are meant to provide you with sufficient understanding of ‘executive risk’ and, more specifically, ‘shareholder class action litigation’ as the key manifestation of executive risk. A brief description of the company that you are to analyze is shown on page 5 of this document. Please note that the company you will be analyzing was more or less randomly selected from the pool of US exchanges-traded public companies. You are also welcome to peruse the instructor’s consulting which contains some more shareholder class action risk estimation details.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, you are also provided with several data files containing companyspecific details for all peer organizations, where ‘peer’ organizations are all companies grouped into the same sector as your company. For instance, if your company is classified as a ‘retail’ organization, your data will include all US stock exchange traded retail companies, which will enable you to express your company-specific estimates in terms of more decision-guiding conclusions (for example, 8% likelihood of incurring shareholder litigation, by a particular company, become considerably more meaningful when put in the context of the sector average being 2%).
Your task is as follows:
1. To familiarize yourself with the situational content and background, as laid out in this document and associated explanatory and expository sources,
2. To familiarize yourself with the company you were assigned by referencing the above noted public and governmental (i.e., SEC, or the Securities and Exchange Commission, Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, etc.) sources,
3. To review, appropriately process (e.g., re-code, as needed, impute missing values, if needed, create new variables, if needed, and combine individual data files into a larger analytical dataset, as appropriate) the provided data, and prepare that said data for further analyses,
4. To conduct analyses you deem appropriate to answer the stated business question, which is to provide data-derived, and clearly substantiated estimates of the likelihood and severity (i.e., impact, or
expected monetary cost) of your assigned company incurring shareholder class action litigation, 5. To prepare a summary report, meeting the following requirements:
a. Length: 5 – 10 single-spaced pages, excluding title or any appendices
b. Summary content: A summary page, which could be presented as a scorecard or a dashboard summarizing the estimated likelihood and severity (i.e., the probability and estimated cost), and the key factors substantiating those estimates,
c. Detailed content: The specifics of the data analytical approach, including specific data manipulation and analysis steps,
d. Contributing content: Any other (than the data provided as a part of this assignment) information that was used to reach your conclusions, e. Noteworthy considerations: Any specific assumptions or important limitations that should be noted by the user of your analyses.
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