Tesla Motors Professor Serluco Financial Management II Charles W. Slaven December 14th‚ 2014 Introduction Tesla Motors‚ Inc. is a Silicon Valley based company that designs‚ manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle power train components. Entrepreneur/Inventor Elon Musk and four other associates founded Tesla in 2003. Tesla is strategically positioned in the electric vehicle market as a high end manufacturer and dealer. Tesla gains competitive advantage over auto industry competitors
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relatively short period of time. Quick ratio= (cash+ marketable securities+ accounts receivables)/current liabilities For this question we use quick ratio as our measurement for the solvency ability to know the solvency condition in the industry. We see that in 1999 Ford has quick ratio of 0.13 which is the highest value among the three. And compared with the previous years‚ Ford still has relatively high quick ratio. Both horizontally and vertically‚ Ford has relatively high quick ratio
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Q1. What were the key challenges facing Tata Motors in the process of moving to produce passenger cars from successfully producing commercial vehicles? The major challenge for the company was the market competition which is a part of Industry Environment that plays a important role in strategy formulation. At the beginning Tata motors had mostly focused on the domestic market mostly demand driven and there was a lack of competency. But when Indica was launched there were three dominant players who
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Essay for International Trade Title : Hyundai Motors in International Market Hyundai Motors‚ one of the affiliates of Hyundai Corporation‚ started as a joint-venture company with Ford. Before introducing more about Hyundai Motors‚ a man who founded the company should come first. Joo-young Jung was an entrepreneur‚ businessman and the founder of all Hyundai Groups of South Korea. Joo-young Jung was born in 1915 to a large impoverished family of peasants during the
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Transport along with communication‚ forms the core of day to day life of modern world. Conventional rail transport through wide spread is now being considered inefficient in terms of fuel consumption and is time consuming. A genuine replacement for railways which is not only fuel efficient but also highly comfortable and can attain unimaginable velocities of around 450 – 500kms/hr are Maglev Trains whose idea was given by Robert Goddard‚ an American
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INNOVATOR4 History of Tata Motors4 The Indian Automotive Industry 5 The Origin of the Nano 7 Tata’s Unique Business Model 8 Activities at Tata Motors 11 Effects on India’s Ecology and Economy 12 Risk of Imitation 13 Sustaining Competitive Advantage 13 3. REFERENCES16 4. EXHIBIT 117 1. ------------------------------------------------- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY After years of research and development‚ Tata Motors stunned the worldwide automotive industry by manufacturing a USD 2.500 car‚ against expectations
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Management‚ Vol. X‚ No. Y‚ xxxx 1 Geely motors: a Chinese automaker enters international markets Ilan Alon‚* Marc Fetscherin and Marc Sardy Rollins China Center & International Business Department Rollins College 1000 Holt Avenue 32789 Winter Park‚ FL‚ USA E-mail: ialon@rollins.edu E-mail: mfetscherin@rollins.edu E-mail: msardy@rollins.edu *Corresponding author Abstract: On 22 January 2006‚ Shufu Li‚ the Director of International Marketing for Geely Motors‚ was rushing to the check-in counter at
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Tata Motors was founded in 1945‚ as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company to manufacture locomotives and engineering products. In 1945‚ Tata began production of steam road rollers with the collaboration with UK manufacture Marshall Sons (Gamble‚ Peteraf‚ & Thompson‚ 2015). In 1994‚ Tata Motors began a joint venture with Damier-Benz/Mercedes Benz to manufacture Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in India (Gamble‚ Peteraf‚ & Thompson‚ 2015). In 2003‚ Tata Engineering changed its name to Tata Motors Limited
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CASE STUDY REPORT The decisions and culture leading to the fall of General Motors CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………………………………….iii 1. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………..4 2. EXTERNAL FACTORS IN DECISION MAKING……………………….4-5 3. BOUNDED RATIONALITY……………………………………………….5-7 4. BUSINESS CULTURE…………………………………………………...7 a. The Power-Distance Relationship……………………………...7 b. Uncertainty Approach……………………………………………8 5. THE CONFORMITY APPROACH……………………………………...8-9 6
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General Motors Analysis General Motors (GM) is a United States car manufacturer that was founded by William C. Durant in Flint‚ Michigan dating back to 1908. GM headquarters is located in Detroit‚ Michigan and is among one of the world’s largest automakers‚ conducting business in over one hundred and twenty countries with production facilities in thirty-seven of those. GM dominated the automaker industry for over seventy-seven years (1913-2007) through ownership of over twenty-five different companies
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