In January 2018, President Donald Trump announced steep tariffs on solar imports, at once plunging the US solar industry into uncertainty and deeply angering vital trade partners such as China, South Korea, and the European Union. The tariffs were in response to a complaint made by two bankrupt solar companies seeking protection against cheap solar imports. The companies invoked a rarely used provision of the 1974 United States Trade Act, Section .....more

Located in the media capital of the world and boasting a cadre of high-profile owners, Los Angeles Football Club, the newest MLS franchise, launches with great fanfare in 2018. Despite its location, LAFC''s early strategy doesn''t emphasize a star-studded publicity campaign; rather, the club develops a novel "one by one, block by block" fan engagement approach. LAFC and its early supporter group leaders look to carve out .....more

The first home match of the expansion Los Angeles Football Club is marred by the appearance of an exclusionary and derisive chant from some parts of the crowd. How should LAFC react in order to ensure the in-venue experience it has sought to create? (Teaching Note available early August 2020)

In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country''s future. Many international observers credited Chile''s decades of neoliberal governance with turning the country into Latin America''s "Tiger," a prosperous, diversified economy on its way to becoming the continent''s first developed country. But in October of 2019, a mass protest movement ground the country to a halt and shocked its .....more

The case discusses the strategy of CIAM, a French activist investment firm, involved in a case of a buy-out of minority shareholders in the telecommunications sector. Altice NV, an international telecommunications company based in the Netherlands that owned more than 77% of SFR Group shares, made a bid for the remaining shares of France''s second largest mobile operator. Believing that the offer was woefully inadequate and constituted an abuse .....more

In 2018, after nearly two decades of success in the highly competitive consumer electronics market of Singapore, Asian Home Electronics (AHE) Limited was once again searching for new frontiers to break through for its retail business. Having evolved from the traditional brick-and-mortar business model to omni-channel and to experiential retail, AHE, a household name consisting of five retail stores in the city-state, had set its eyes on retailing .....more

An examination of the strategic challenges facing the SF Ballet in 2019 due to changes in demographics, lifestyles, and the city of San Francisco itself.

The case discusses the strategy of DER SPIEGEL, the leading news magazine in Germany, in the aftermath of the discovery of a fake reporting scandal. It had come to light that one of DER SPIEGEL''s own reporters had falsified and made up entire articles for years, despite DER SPIEGEL''s large fact-checking departments. New editor-in-chief Steffen Klusmann and an internal investigation commission had set to work to discover the problems .....more

This (B) case serves as a complement to the case "Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (A)".