We are looking for an enthusiastic Undergraduate (Senior or Junior) Student Intern with Business as a Major or Minor to join our Business for a Better World Center over the Summer, Fall and Spring Term and provide creative ideas, input and data to help us achieve our goals.
As a Undergraduate Student Intern, you will collaborate with other interns, our Center’s leadership team and School of Business faculty to conduct research, collect data, develop framework, and create insights around Stakeholder Value Index (SVI), a way to measure performance of large businesses across all stakeholders – shareholders, employees, customers, communities, supply base, and the Planet.
This internship will help you acquire business and management skills in key areas of business management and business performance, develop data collection methods and approaches, create workable frameworks to summarize data and provide you with knowledge of various aspects of business performance, beyond pure financial performances. Ultimately, you will gain knowledge of holistic performance measures that go beyond traditional financial measures and the role and mission of the Center’s work in this space.
Responsibilities
- Work on refining our recent framework to define and report on a Stakeholder Value Index (SVI) along the dimension of shareholders, employees, communities, supply base, and the Planet.
- Identify and find ways to collect data on Standard & Poor (S&P) 500 public companies – such data include both quantitative and qualitative data. Our current team has been collecting data on S&P 100+ companies since 2021.
- Analyze and summarize data into meaningful insights and useful metrics that can be used to capture relative performance of various companies along an SVI scale or score that can be used to encourage companies to address deficiencies or areas of improvement in a targeted and measurable way.
- Research on other measures such as ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) used by institutional investors to align their investment portfolio and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibilities) metrics used by various companies themselves or by consulting companies to help businesses improve their CSR capabilities and find relevance with SVI.
- Learn ways to present data in a visually compelling manner.
- Work on the infrastructure of an SVI portal where all data will reside, available data will be analyzed, visually displayed and SVI related scores and indices will be calculated and shared through the portal
- This SVI portal should also provide secure access to interested businesses and other interested parties to input data, see output and conduct research using the data, while securing private access for non-public data to their providers only
Requirements
- Strong desire to learn along with professional drive
- Passion for sustainability and the mission and vision of Business for a Better World
- Good understanding of various business stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office
- Strong interest in the business performance and practices towards sustainability and UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Current enrollment as a Business Major or Business Minor with standing as a Junior or Senior.
- Familiarity with data mining and data analytics is helpful
- Familiarity with database management, programming with numeric and textual data, programming using open source tools for data collection, storing, analysis and visualization is a definite plus