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Is it too late for Tesla?

What may have started as an ill-advised bit of summer whimsy — Elon Musk’s tweet on Aug. 7 suggesting that, as Tesla’s chief executive officer and its largest shareholder, he was going to take the company private and had the “funding secured” to do so — has turned into a full-blown crisis.

There’s the unwanted scrutiny: Thanks to Mr. Musk’s tweet, Tesla is the target of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and a civil investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. There’s the missed opportunity: a Saudi investment fund that had been eyeing Teslahas invested $1 billion in a rival. There’s the brain drain: the sudden departures of Tesla’s chief accounting officer and its head of human resources. There’s the loss of investor confidence: Tesla’s stock price is down 25 percent since August.

And then there is Tesla’s biggest and most acute problem: its precarious finances. Mr. Musk promises investors that Tesla is going to start making more cars and profits any day now, but that’s wishful thinking. Tesla is not generating enough cash to pay back the mountain of debt that is coming due soon. Once stalwart investors are losing faith in Mr. Musk and his company, and Wall Street is turning on him. Tesla could soon become a case study of what can happen when an iconoclastic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, seduced by his own wonderfulness, thinks the rules of the marketplace do not apply to him.

Tesla’s finances are fragile. It has around $11 billion in long-term debt and no profits. “That is not a sustainable business model,” Jim Collins, a longtime auto industry research analyst, wrote in Forbes in April. “Not even close.”

From January to June of this year, Tesla generated revenues of $7.4 billion, but it had an operating loss of $1.7 billion, burning through its cash on hand. It has $2.2 billion left, most of which will be needed to cover operating losses. Romit Shah, a research analyst at Nomura Instinet and once one of Tesla’s biggest boosters, reversed course last week, calling the company “no longer investable.”

About $1.7 billion of the company’s long-term “convertible” debt is due in the next 14 months, meaning that the debt holders have the option of being repaid either in stock, at a specified price, or in cash. One chunk of the convertible debt, $230 million, is due in November. The conversion price is around $560 per share. If Tesla’s stock is not trading at more than $560 per share by then, the holders of those notes will most likely want cash. That puts enormous pressure on Tesla and its leader to get the stock price up quickly — it’s trading around $300 per share these days.

Not surprisingly, bond investors have become increasingly skittish about Tesla. In March, the bond-rating company Moody’s moved Tesla’s corporate debt rating lower on its noninvestment grade, or “junk,” scale.

In its explanation of the downgrade, Moody’s acknowledged that the market continues to admire Tesla’s cars: Advance purchase reservations and deposits for them “remain high.” But that hasn’t been enough to solve Tesla’s fundamental financial reality: It isn’t producing cars fast enough to meet demand, its operations are running at a loss, and it has huge debts coming due. The resulting pressure on the company’s cash balance cannot simply be wished away.

Wall Street is a confidence game. When confidence in a company, or an entrepreneur, is high, it seems as if nothing can go wrong and there’s no limit to the capital that investors will throw around. Wall Street fell in love with Tesla and, so far, there has always been plenty of money for Mr. Musk and his electric car company, then for his space company and then for his tunnel-boring company. He was even able to push through Tesla’s $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity, even though many shareholders were wary of buying a debt-laden company owned by Mr. Musk and his cousins.

To be sure, Tesla is no Theranos; its products are real. The company still has a market value of about $50 billion.

So Tesla’s best option to solve its short-term liquidity problems is to issue more shares of its wildly overpriced stock. There is already speculation that Tesla will have no choice but to raise new equity — one analyst put the need at $2.5 billion — but only at a significant discount to the current trading price. Selling stock, even at a discount, will require Mr. Musk to find investors willing to buy into his dreams. If that fails, and Tesla can’t repay its debt, Mr. Musk may well lose his company to his creditors.

Mr. Musk has always found people willing to take a chance on him. But Wall Street’s confidence can prove ephemeral, and Mr. Musk’s personal antics are testing the limits of investor infatuation. He is on the verge of becoming a cautionary tale about a Silicon Valley genius felled by hubris.

explain what annex SL is futhermore, list and explain at least 4 high level main clauses and how they may be applied in an ISO 9001 audit. answer in detail.

1. Why do the Supreme Court justices have lifetime terms? Do you think this reasonable, or should they be elected? Should any public official have a lifetime position?

2. Is it possible for justices and judges to be biased in their decision-making? Explain

3. Is the Justice (Judicial) system "Just" (fair)?

If you were a Public Safety Executive/Administrator, how would you design and implement a public education campaign concerning CBRNE hazards (the “new” hazards)? What information would you present to the public and how?

Give an example of lost opportunity cost and obsolescence and discuss their impact on inventory carrying costs.

Analysis of the Shoe Corporation of Illinois.

Analyze the organizational structure of Shoe Corporation, including how the corporate culture there has impacted the structure.

What suggestions do you have for improvement in information flow?

How would you characterize the current interdependence between departments? What management techniques would you use to help facilitate change given the interdependence within the company?

Given that the president’s intent is to change shoe styles frequently, how could innovation be fostered?

Find three exemplary transformational leaders or innovative thinkers.
1.   For each of your “hero/ines” describe who they are and what they have accomplished in their career.
2.   Provide a biographical sketch—as I believe that authentic leaders who “take a stand” about changing or improving our world or making a difference in the lives they touch get their passions from their own life experiences.
3.   Cull the leadership lessons from each of your chosen leaders.
4.   Apply these lessons to your own leadership path—how will these impact you?
5.   Reflections—what have your learned doing this assignment?

There are many promotions that minor baseball clubs do to promote their sport and get fans out to see them. Offer at least 4 ways that  a small stadium do to market itself without spending a lot of money? Explain your ideas and why you think they might work. Make an initial post of at least 10 sentences

Honest Tea: Organizational Structure

Honest Tea (U.S.) is a bottled organic tea company based in Bethesda, Maryland. It was founded in 1998 by Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola invested 40% in 2008 and bought the rest of the company in 2011. Honest Tea is known for its organic and fair trade products and is one of the fastest growing private companies.

Honest Tea started off with a handful of employees bringing out five products, three of which are still in the market. As Honest Tea began to grow, it became necessary to have workers specialized in different tasks so that they ultimately function as a single unit. Today the company has over 35 package varieties of not only tea but other beverages as well.

Honest Tea caters to a group of customers that prefer organic or low calorie beverages over other types of beverages. The advantage here is that Honest Tea is able to use skilled specialists to deal with this unique customer base. Honest Tea came into this category of customers as a challenger. The whole process of sourcing material, production, marketing, and sales was different since it catered to a different group of customer.

Honest Tea finds that it must continually adapt to changing circumstances and environments. Initially organic or low calorie tea was the only product, but the firm has expanded to various other beverages. Bringing out new and innovative beverages is something that Honest Tea continues to do. Honest Tea follows a very transparent work culture which has helped them to avoid some of the problems that typical growing organizations face. Honest Tea believes that growth is continuous; the firm should never consider that they have finished achieving what they set out to accomplish.

1. Describe the role of division of labor and hierarchy ay Honest Tea.

2. In what ways has business strategy and organizational size impacted Honest Tea. How might this change in the future?

3. Does Honest Tea have more of an organic or mechanistic structure? How can you tell?

Consider a seller who wants to sell a single unit of a good and a group of firms interested in buying the good. The seller decides to run a sealed-bid, second-price auction. Your firm intends to bid in the auction and had a private value of c for the good being sold, but is unsure of the number of other firms bidding. There will be either two or three additional firms bidding in the auction, each with an independent private value for the good. What bid should your firm submit in this auction, and how (if at all) should the bid depend on the number of other firms which participate? Provide a justification for your strategy.

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It tends to be related to item assorted variety or going into new markets. Extension system assume a major job for the improvement of the organization. This is the open door for adidas to grow its product offerings to beat its opposition. The idea of this technique is essential since it would give chance to adidas to go into another product offering and turn into a solid brand in various product offering. I have allocated it rating 4 it reactions unrivaled with current technique of the adidas. (“Adidas Group,” 2013, p. 68)

Product innovation

Adidas bargains in premium and configuration shoes. with advancement it can get open door making itself one the most grounded brand. The rating is 2 since innovative work for advancement requires an enormous speculation, that is the reason I evaluated 2, its present items are doing great so reaction is normal. (“Adidas Group,” 2013, p. 79)

New market development

Organization's methodology to enter to undiscovered market is a chance to make itself a brand in those market. This open door would cover the specialty advertise with the goal that it piece of the pie can develop. The rating is 3 in light of the fact that there are very few such market left that is the reason reaction is better than expected. Adidas since have effectively secured numerous business sectors yet need to cover the other arrangement of market which isn't yet secured by contenders. To do as such, they may dispatch new arrangement of items to hit the purchasers of lower spending plan. White collar class purchasers range would not just make the piece of the overall industry, additionally mark unwaveringness and advancement would be upgraded. (“Adidas Group,” 2013, p. 80)

Demand for premium products

As all we know adidas is known for its excellent shoes which has been a pattern everywhere throughout the world for quite a long time. The rating is 3 since it is as yet developing variable to which adidas reaction is better than expected.

Since the shopper inclinations and preferences are continue changing, now towards a greater amount of marked things which eventually helped the offer of premium results of Adidas. To acquire piece of the overall industry and increment this rating, the adidas must work on extension system and go into new market to increase biggest piece of the overall industry.

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Threats

Competition

Rivals in the shoe business are relatively few yet at the same time being a worldwide brand, adidas is on second position. Nike tops at first position which have a danger to adidas. The rating is 4 in light of the fact that adidas makes its system with the goal that opposition can't turn into an issue so reaction is unrivaled. Additionally, rivalry can be overseen on the off chance that it pursued by the diverse technique of dispersion to the customers. Web based life and online locales assume an indispensable job as today the vast majority of the general population incline toward sitting at home and submitting a request at doorsteps.

Political changes

Political power changes likewise influence the business since they can adjust the laws identified with import-send out and charges which can impacts the expense and costs of the item. However, adidas adjust with these dangers in light of the fact that these progressions happens in years when organization set itself up, so evaluating is 1 since reaction to this risk happens in years that is the reason reaction is poor. This can likewise prompt adversary nation if any progressions occur. Political variables influence the business generally and that additionally relies upon the administration if change after races. Those nations which are a piece of Global activity at WTO level, are still simple to manage as they pursue worldwide rules for exchanging and business.

Tech. advancement

Tech. progression or mechanical changes likewise influence business since it can influence the assembling tasks of the shoe item. They present dangers to adidas that is the reason reaction ought to be better than expected so appraising is given 3.

Mechanical headway has an extraordinary approach. They are ceaseless and are very powerful nowadays. Associations who doesn't keep their pace with the progression and inventiveness couldn't endure long. In this changing unique society, change is consistent and thus the association needs to spent a considerable measure for keeping up the equivalent.

Government rules and regulation

Being a worldwide brand, it enters and works into various nations where laws and request are distinctive to one another. So technique are affected in light of the fact that approaches and guidelines of adidas made by lawfulness of that nation. The rating is 3 since they reaction to these dangers better than expected.

Government directions are very high in wording or import/trade controls and custom levies, in light of which the estimating of the items contrasts in those nations as contrast with home nation. This makes an issue as far as

What differences do you see between how the quantitative results are presented compared to how the qualitative results are presented?

Which type of data visualization (method or chart) do you feel is best for each type of data and why?

Are there certain considerations you think are important for communicating numerical results?

Identify and briefly discuss the three types of layouts found in the production of goods. (Provide examples production under each of these layout types.

You are the owner of the second largest cruise line in the world. You have 7 different cruise ships that sail all areas of the globe. As second, one of your main goals is to become #1. Your company prides itself on customer service and you believe that this avenue affords you the best opportunity to become #1.

Your largest ship, the "World Traveler" can accommodate 10,000 passengers. During a November cruise in the Southern Caribbean, while docked at Barbados Islands, 5,500 passengers became sick from food poisoning. People from America, Mexico, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy were all part of those who got sick. As it turns out, over 3000 people reported sick but only after returning from excursions on the island.

This situation could represent a possible setback to achieving your #1 position in the world unless it is handled properly. So after extensive discussions with your board of directors, it was decided to not only fully refund all passengers that were aboard this cruise (whether they got sick or not), but to provide for a free cruise on any of your ships at any time throughout the year in any part of the world for up to a 7 days and 8 night’s cruise. Passengers are responsible for the cost of getting to and from the point of debarkation to meet the ship.

Assignment Instructions

Answer the questions listed below:

According to you, what is the issue and who are the various parties/stakeholders affected by it

Present evidence to support your view of the problem as explained previously. The evidence can be from the case as well as outside research.

How would you resolve this issue? Why? Can there be more than one solution?

Are there any specific leadership skills that you might develop in preparation for a position as a future administrator?