Suppose you are the president of a sugar company based in southern Florida. Poor sugar harvests in the Caribbean Islands means your firm is struggling to meet demand and prices are rising. Cuba is having a bumper sugar harvest, but you cannot import from Cuba because of the Helms–Burton Act and the U. S. embargo on Cuba. A powerful U. S. senator from Florida serves on a committee in Washington, DC, that is reviewing the embargo. What arguments do you make to your senator to eliminate the embargo? Please provide a two or more substantial paragraph response.

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Which is one solution to levy the complexity of the global matrix strategy with added customer-focused dimensions?

Differentiate between the trait, behavioral, and results-based performance appraisal systems, providing an example where each would be most applicable.