BUS 478 – STRATEGY / SECTION: D300 Tesla Motors Inc. Case Synopsis Date: March 17, 2014 [Edited] Yafeng(Elsie) Liu Yingying Kang Hao Wu Chan Chen Edith Hon Firm history Background Tesla Motors, Inc. is an American company that was founded in 2003 by a group of brilliant and innovative Silicon Valley engineers. These engineers proved that electric vehicles could be awesome substitute of the gasoline powered cars. Tesla not only designs, produces and markets electric cars, but it also provides
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Tesla Motors, Inc.’s 5 most valuable assets and their inherent risks Tesla’s most valuable assets are the ones in the company’s control and on which the company’s future growth will largely depend. This paper identifies: the CEO, customer loyalty, execution of strategy, workforce, and hardware and software
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Tesla Motors Strategic Analysis Prepared by: Lexen Beran Brenna Hayes Travis Heidemen Jenna Hughes Jake Latimer In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements For: MANGT 595: Business Strategy M/W/F at 12:30pm 1 Table of Contents Table of Contents…………………………………………………………………...……2 Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………...3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………4 External Analysis………………………………………………………………………...5 Internal Analysis…………………………………………………………………………8
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Brand Audit of TESLA Motor’s Owner The owner and director of Tesla Motor’s is Elon Musk, a South African born Canadian American, Inventor, Business magnate and global investor. (Johnston, 2014) His initial rise to Global success was due to his company PayPal which generated huge revenue providing secure monetary transactions online. PayPal was sold to eBay for 1.5 billion dollars in the year 2000. (Bellis, 2014) History Tesla Motor’s was started in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard
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protection under the Act. Do not remove this notice. For more information please contact copyright@cqu.edu.au CASE 6 Tesla Motors and the U.S. Auto Industry (Case B) Michael Janovec Georgia Institute ofTechnology Frank T. Rothaermel Georgia Institute ofTechnology LON MUSK, CEO of Tesla Motors, sped past the security guard in his brand new Tesla Roadster without waving . Despite his reputation as a brash leader, Mr. Musk normally took the time t0 exchange pleasam tries in the
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MEMORANDUM Company Background Tesla Motors, Inc. was founded in 2003 by South African entrepreneur Elon Musk, and is based in Palo Alto, California. The company designs, manufactures, and sells electric cars, and is known for introducing the first fully electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, in 2008. It was priced at $109,000 and could travel more than 200 miles per charge, twice as far as its competition. Tesla stopped producing the Roadster in 2011 as its contract with the key supplier
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Charles Dong Yd461@stern.nyu.edu 347-3073175 Analyst Report for Tesla Motors, Inc The following report will explain all the summary statistics for Tesla Motors as well as all assumptions used in the equity valuation. This report serves to offer a broad overview of the general performance of the company and an analysis of its true value. It can be divided into the following sections, profitability statistics, liquidity statistics, solvency statistics, DCF valuation, relative valuation, and
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TESLA MOTORS SWOT Analysis Anandita Jindal Tesla Motors is a car company that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles. Ian Wright, JB Straubel, Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhard and most notably Elon Musk founded this public company in 2003. Its headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California, with its main production plant in Fremont, California. The company was named after Nikola Tesla, a renowned electrical engineer and physicist. Its goal is to increase the number of EV’s (Electric
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9-714-413 REV: JANUARY 24, 2014 ERIC VAN DEN STEEN Tesla Motors “Tesla is in California, so it is not April Fool’s yet!” tweeted Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, around 10 PM PT on March 31, 2013. “First profitable Q for Tesla thanks to awesome customers & hard work by a super dedicated team”1 he had tweeted a few minutes earlier. And indeed, on May 8, Tesla announced a net income of more than $10mln on $560 mln in sales.2 Tesla had outsold both Nissan and GM in electric cars in the U
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Conclusion 13 5.0. References 14 1. Introduction The following report would discuss about how Tesla, Inc. did in the previous few year. Tesla is an American company that established in 2003. The company main in manufacture electric vehicle. In this era, with people’s green environment awareness increases, electric car would be getting more and more customers’ attention. 2.1. Background to organization In 2003, Tesla established under Elon Musk’s investment. And the company’s primary
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