You are writing these policy research papers in order to analyze a particular business issue and make policy recommendations. You May want to address your paper to a person or to an agency (e.g., President Trump, the Federal Reserve, Environmental Protection Agency, FDA, etc.) and make your recommendations realistic as to what that person or agency can accomplish. Don’t be vague and say things like “reduce unemployment” or “achieve economic growth”– how would you recommend this be done? The more specific your recommendations, the better.
Choose a specific company or industry that faces a pressing environmental, social or economic issue. Since you will be keeping up with your reading, current events and have been developing presentations with your team you have (almost) the whole world to choose from
Describe the issue and summarize the economic/political/scientific background clearly and succinctly (pretend you are writing for an intelligent layperson). Is this a new issue, or an ongoing problem? Why? What are the causes of the problem, environmental/social/political/economic? Use hard data and statistics to build a convincing argument.