Case : Tesla Motors in 2016: Will Its Strategy Be Defeated by Low Gasoline Prices and Mounting Competition? By Arthur A. Thompson
Assignment Questions
1-What are the key elements of Tesla Motors' strategy?
2-Are you impressed by the strategy Elon Musk has crafted for Tesla? Why or why not?
3-What is your assessment of Tesla's financial performance as shown in case Exhibit 2? Use the financial ratio information in Table 4.1 chapter
4 assist you calculating a revealing set of financial ratios and interpreting them.
4- What do we learn from data in case Exhibit 3 ? Does the data provide additional valuable information? Why or why not?
5-What' if any, changes /adjustments in Tesla's strategy would you recommend that Elon Musk consider?