social media. However‚ management should be aware of the risks and impact to the company’s reputation should the employee publish something that puts the company is a negative light. Keywords: blogging‚ social media‚ reputation Tesla CEO Elon Musk was right when he blogged about impending layoffs just before announcing them to company employees Blogging and tweeting can have both positive and negative impacts on the image and reputation of a company. The use of social media
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Marketing mix: a. Product Tesla is a new company. It only has three vehicle models. Based on information that Tesla has a few competitors and it starts make a profit in the first quarter of 2014. We assume that Tesla’s Model X electric vehicles are still in the introductory stage. People who buy its products are innovators and early adopters. The target market is the consumer who wants to take a risk in order to experience new design and technology to experience. Model X has not been released yet
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In 2.8 seconds the Tesla Model S P85D can go from zero to sixty MPH. Elon Musk is the owner of Tesla‚ Solar City‚ and Space X. All of those companies all have one thing in common they are all trying to help the world. Tesla is trying to solve the problem of fossil fuels by being an all electric car company. Solar city is using the greatest source of energy from the sun to power your home. Space X is trying to expand the world by exploring other planets in addition to Earth. As the owner of these
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| Rashanna Etenburn | BUSI 510 – Managerial Economics | | Executive Summary Tesla Motors is among the top 25 companies “going green” for our economy. Tesla motors is a venture aimed at proving that cars can be environmentally friendly‚ without giving up the speed and power‚ purchasers love. The cost of running this amazing‚ green driving machine is a mere 2 cents per mile. (Ryan‚ 2008) Tesla Motors is a company looking to produce a high-performance electric sports car‚ and is backed by
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Tesla goes NASCAR with “Ludicrous Mode.” Not real NASCAR. But it could be interesting to see. The 2018 Tesla Model 3 buyers will have the option to add Ludicrous Mode to their electric sedan. What does that mean? It may be a wordplay steal from the movie‚ “Spaceballs‚” which was written and directed by comedy legend Mel Brooks. In that blockbuster classic‚ the spacecraft had a “Ludicrous Speed.” This allowed it to accelerate and reach speeds of a ludicrous nature. I could see Elon Musk being a big
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Threat of New Entrants Just entering the automotive industry in 2003‚ Tesla themselves are facing the challenges of being the new entrants into the market. A high capital is required to begin any business expenditure. Tesla is not expected to become profitable for another 18 months (Taylor‚ 2011). There is a relatively low barrier to entry due to the higher demand for environmental friendly vehicles and with other outlets for available technology for lithium-ion batteries‚ it is a level of playing
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in the world‚ it can be tough to spend it all. It will be even tougher to spend when you’re dead. If you’re Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page‚ though‚ you already know how you want your money to live on after you’re gone: support innovators like Tesla CEO Elon Musk. That’s what Page said at the TED conference in Vancouver‚ Canada this week‚ anyway‚ adding that the already-wealthy Musk is worthy of the Page billions because he’s one of the people who can change the world. Page said: He wants
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Toyota is the leader of the hybrid technology with its Prius. The Prius was the world’s first mass-produced hybrid car (Case‚ paragraph 2‚ ‘The Prius…higher speeds.’). Toyota used the Prius as the centre-piece of their campaign to give themselves a more environmental image compared to their rivals. The reason why the Prius was such a success and other hybrid models were having troubles to get buyers‚ is that the buyers of the Prius want to make a statement about themselves. They want to show people
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Nikola Tesla and Induction motor Name: Boris Halada Academic year: 2014/2015 Language supervisor: PaedDr. Dagmar Rusková‚ PhD. Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor‚ electrical engineer‚ mechanical engineer‚ and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas
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Barney and Hesterly (2006)‚ describe the VRIO framework as a good tool to examine the internal environment of a firm. They state that VRIO “stands for four questions one must ask about a resource or capability to determine its competitive potential: 1. The Question of Value: Does a resource enable a firm to exploit an environmental opportunity‚ and/or neutralize an environmental threat? 2. The Question of Rarity: Is a resource currently controlled by only a small number of competing firms
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