Net Zero Hotel Game Instructions 2024

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Net Zero Hotel Simulation (Due date as indicated on Brightspace) This is a challenging assignment. It involves strategically selecting from initiatives, balancing financial and emissions/ sustainability goals, as well as thinking about and executing effective investor communication. Instructions Complete in groups of 1, 2 or 3. Your hotel has committed to reduce its GHG emissions by 50% over 7 years while also keeping the hotel profitable. Your job is to select initiatives each year to simultaneously reduce emissions and maintain the hotel’s financial health. Four years into the 7-year timeframe, you will provide your results to potential investors. The potential investor group is interested in both financial and sustainability-related outcomes and are viewing a number of hotels. They will review all of the slides from all of your competitors and then decide who to invite to present them so they can ask further questions. So your goal is to make your slides and related materials as compelling as possible. You are competing against all other hotels in the class, and your content will be judged by me (and the TAs) as though we are potential investors. You have seen information about one of your competitors. Your goal is to produce something more compelling and informative. (https://s22.q4cdn.com/153757806/files/doc_downloads/2022/04/WHR-2022-ESG-Report.pdf) Choose New York City as your location. Perform 4 years of simulation. (You may test out the simulation as many times as you like; you may also click on ‘reset’ at any time if you want to start over). 1. At the end of 4 years, prepare a slide deck of 5 slides (plus title slide) for the Investor group. These should include both financial and sustainability/emissions results. You don’t yet know if you will present them in person, so they should be suitable for both kinds of audiences: reading the slide deck and viewing the slide deck in a presentation. 2. The files to upload are as follows: a. Slide deck (as one file). b. Appendix A (as a different file in a Word doc) with the following. This will be used by the Investors to help them understand your slides. i. In 500 words or less, explain the strategy and approach you used for achieving the emissions reductions while still remaining financially sound. ii. Capture the relevant financial and emissions results (from dashboard) into a document not exceeding two pages. (Paste in, or recreate, as you wish). iii. At the end of each year, explain and provide reasons for which initiatives you selected and those which you did not select (see sample table). iv. Signed academic integrity statements. Assignments without these will not be read or graded and you will receive a zero. Notes : Slides must clearly explain the Scope 1, 2, and/or 3 emissions reductions to the investors. Since one of the aims is to attract investment to your hotel, you might want to consider what you will be able to claim or demonstrate to potential investors when you are choosing among the different initiatives.
Sample table (length/page count will vary depending how many items you implemented) Year 1 Reason Selected Install water-efficient appliances (Reasoning should be brief but clear and related to your strategy) Not selected Replace cars with Electric Vehicles (Reasoning should be brief but clear and related to your strategy) Year 2 (continued…. DO NOT REPEAT ITEMS (SELECTED OR NOT SELECTED) FROM YEAR TO YEAR UNLESS YOUR REASONS HAVE CHANGED. Year 3 (continued….. Rubric Slides Do the slides follow the instructions? Is the slide content clear and well thought out? Would the slides work effectively well for presentation viewing and for static viewing? Do the slides convince the investor to choose the hotel? Appendix Materials Table completed as instructed, relates to strategy Strategy clear, and convincing Environment/Financial Results Relative ranking against other hotels
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