Sharp • Known for its televisions • Origins in mechanical pencils • With Sharp struggling as a consumer-electronics company, the company will ramp up an experiment they started in July, 2013 – Strawberry farming. • Sharp’s LED lights, sensors, and air-purification system are key inputs into the growth of the strawberries. • Will not enter business of selling strawberries. • The company wants to create an agricultural engineering business that will focus on factory design, technology that monitors
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MAR 675: STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANNING CASE STUDY: TESLA MOTORS 2/16/2015 1. Introduction * Background and summary Tesla Motors (TSLA) is an automobile company founded in 2003 in San Carlos, California. It mainly produces electric vehicles and electronic vehicle power train components. Tesla’s first product is the Roadster, which is the first fully electric sport car, and gained much widespread attention. Then it delivered a five-seat vehicles Model S in 2012 and seven-seat Model X and
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Business Plan Tesla Motors creates shared values by exploring a previously underserved market, electric cars. In the past, although many big car manufactures such as Toyota and GM show their electric cars during car exhibitions, these electric cars remain show-only cars, as they never truly enter the market. In contrast, Tesla officially introduces electric cars into the market, competing with the traditional gasoline-powered cars. In comparison to its competitors, Tesla produces more environmental
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How Tesla Motors can manage the extreme competition from large and premium manufactures Daniil Chaika (119102547) Workshop Tutor: John Davison SIM336 - Strategic Management ------------------------------------------------- Contents 1.0 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………….3 2.0 Company Background………………………………………………………………….….3 3.0 PESTEL Analysis……………………………………………………………...…………..3 4.1. Political……………………………………………………………………………..3-4 4.2. Economic……………………………………………………………………………
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How Tesla Motors can manage the extreme competition from large and premium manufactures Daniil Chaika (119102547) Workshop Tutor: John Davison SIM336 - Strategic Management ------------------------------------------------- Contents 1.0 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………….3 2.0 Company Background………………………………………………………………….….3 3.0 PESTEL Analysis……………………………………………………………...…………..3 4.1. Political……………………………………………………………………………..3-4 4.2. Economic……………………………………………………………………………
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Introduction Tesla Motors is an American company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components, which was funded in 2003, in San Carlos, California by Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpenning. Elon Musk was one of the first investor and became CEO later. By DEC.29, 2009 the firm has more than 500 employees and had sold 937 Roadster models in 18 countries around the world. Tesla Motors sell 2 models of car, Tesla Roadster and Teals Model S. Tesla Motors uses proprietary
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MIS-302-08 Tesla Motors Inc. (Sustainability & CSR) Tesla Motors Inc. The corporation I chose to investigate is Tesla Motors Inc. My Dad is extremely into cars, especially high-end ones, and when he first caught news of Tesla it was all he could talk about for days; that’s what sparked my interest in this corporation. Tesla Motors Inc. is an American car company that designs, manufactures and sells its own electric vehicles. Not only do they sell cars but now they produce the “Powerwall”
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for building spacecraft for commercial space travel * SpaceX – for space exploration and preservation of the future of the human race have become cornerstones of Musk’s interests * Co-founded Tesla Motors, a company dedicated to producing affordable mass-market electric cars * Tesla Motors- for discovery of renewable and clean energy sources Top 3 leadership characteristics * Able to motivate others – he’s extremely persuasive to get people to follow him and push people to their full
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Student Signature ……………………. Tutor’s Feedback Tutor Name: | Tutor Signature: | Date returned: | TESLA MOTORS Working at Tesla Motors is extremely energizing. representatives realize numerous lessons that will refer to for whatever remains of their life. Tesla have an incredible workforce and an extraordinary gathering in administration.
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an aerospace start-up in El Segundo, California, that by 2011 plans to be hauling astronauts to and from the International Space Station. And that's just his day job. Musk has two more wildly ambitious start-ups in play—the electric-car maker Tesla Motors and the solar panel installer SolarCity; in both cases, he serves as chairman and controlling shareholder. In fact, the South Alrican native has been building big, ambitious companies for more than a decade. He co-founded PayPal, the online payment
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