Part 1
1. Yahoo plans to cut about 5 percent of its employees facing a profit drop of 78 percent for the first quarter of 2009.
留学生人力资源管理作业需求The strategy was to layoff some employees.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10224390-93.html
2. Lenovo sold off its mobile phone business in order to focus on its PC services.
The strategy is to sell off the irrelevant department.
http://www.022net.com/2008/4-7/491824172599238.html
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13545.cfm
3. General Motors (GM) and its main Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) jointly merged an engine plant and a vehicle plant in two provinces.
The strategy is to merge some company to enhance their core competitiveness.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200403/08/eng20040308_136826.shtml
Part 2
1. The commonality between such cases was to enhance their competitiveness in their industry.
2.留学生人力资源管理作业需求 Lenovo sold off its mobile phone business was more legitimate than other cases in my opinion.
3. Companies should utilize some strategies when they confront some problems hard to solve in traditional way.