Your company (Amazon, Inc.) would like a presentation of your findings on maximizing profit, pricing decisions, and strategic cooperation at the quarterly board of directors meeting.

 You will outline how managers can determine the conditions for the optimal output level. Address the following in your presentation:

 Identify and describe a competitor to Amazon.com

• Explain competitive advantage.
• Compare their strategies to determine their best plan of action, including deciding upon the optimal price and output of their product or service, product differentiation, or some other strategic variable.
• Show how firms should allocate production among multiple production facilities.
• Show how firms in oligopolies can cooperate to make themselves better off than they would be in a non-cooperative Nash equilibrium.