Current global economic and political policies on the business decisions

I need a good start on the following areas of business using current global economic and political policies and their impact on business decisions. Management and stockholders workers Consumers Forien government such as Mexico the

Pricing Strategy

Before the breakup of AT&T, the firm charged a price for local telephone services that was roughly one-half of its cost of providing the services. In contrast, it charged almost two times it cost for long distance services. Why do you think AT&T adopted this pricing strategy?

Employee Termination

I am trying to defend my view on the following: In the two years prior to its merger with Nextel, Sprint Corporation cut approximately 2,000 employees. In addition, Sprint outsourced nearly 90% of its Information Technology functions from within the company to lower-cost countries outside the United States. Approximately 400 of the 2,000 layoffs occurred in the Kansas City, Missouri area, which is where Sprint headquarters were located at the time (they moved to Virginia after the merger with Nextel). In the three years prior to the layoffs above, Sprint terminated more than 20,000 other employees because of lagging sales and fierce competition in the telecommunications industry. My... click for more

Case study on Rakuten

Please find the case study on Rakuten from Harvard Business School and answer the following questions. I just need a paragraph for each question. I will have to write a paper based on these questions. Q1: Who are Rakuten's customers and how do they pay? Q2: How does Rakuten provide a unified shopping experience? How do they keep things separate? Q3: What methods does Rakuten use to make it easy for a small or medium size business to use its shopping platform? Q4: How has Rakuten extended it services beyond desktop shoppers? Q5: How should Rakuten evaluate new categories to enter? Q6: What are methods that Rakuten is using ... click for more

Game Theory and ecommerce

National book stores have had to alter their operations to compete with Amazon and internet purchasing available through places such as Amazon. How can game theory be applied to Amazon's effect on national book stores?