Tesla strategic Selection

Post is of two assignments

Individual Case
Part I: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS (use databases (e.g. Business Source Complete, Mergent Online)):
Length: 4 pages
Q1 What factors in the general environment, and in the industry in which Tesla competes are affecting Tesla’s strategy selection?
Q2 What tangible, intangible, and organizational capabilities does Tesla possess? Which of these may be providing Tesla: (a) a competitive advantage? (b) a sustainable competitive advantage? (This in part supports Q3)
Q3 What core competencies does Tesla possess?
Q4 Which business level strategy(ies) does Tesla pursue?
Q5 What is Tesla’s overall corporate level strategy?
Part II: QUANTITATIVE: (use databases (e.g. Mergent Online))
Length: 2 pages and all figures and charts in Appendices
Q6 Do a search for Tesla’s (TSLA) current financial performance. Plot percent change in stock price for the last two years, 5 years, and ‘lifetime’ compared to the S&P 500 and automotive industry competitors Ford (F.N), Toyota (TM.N), Honda Motor Company (HMC.N), and General Motors (GM.N). Report the results. What do you see? Include the 5 year plot in an appendix (with proper reference(s)).
Q7 Calculate, interpret, and compare the following financial ratios for Tesla and General Motors, based on end of fiscal year 2016 data: Current Ratio, Total Debt Ratio, Inventory turnover, ROA, ROE. Use the formulas provided in your textbook and use standardized company financial data from Mergent On-line. Include your formulas and calculations in an appendix.
Q8 Develop a common sized income statement and balance sheet for each of Tesla and General Motors for the last 3 fiscal years. Do you see any trends? Compare. Include the common sized statement and balance sheet in an appendix.
PART III: STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS
Format: 4 pages
Hypothetical situation: You are part of Tesla’s top management team (TMT). The TMT has agreed, in consultation with the Board of Directors, that Tesla has an important role to play in helping realize a global vision where every man, woman, and child in the World is empowered by their products to lead a healthy and productive life. You and Elon Musk’s other top advisors have been asked to develop strategic alternatives for expanding Tesla’s involvement in this quest and have been asked to submit a brief for review. In this brief you will:

Q9 Recommend a mission statement for Tesla that would be in-line with this vision.
Q10 Propose three strategic alternatives that are in-line with this mission statement that are based in the business level, corporate level, or international level strategies covered in this course (and the forms these may take).
Q11 Analyze each of these alternatives. (What are the strengths and weaknesses of each alternative?)
Q12 Recommend one of the alternatives. (Why are you recommending this alternative?)
PART IV: APPENDICES
• 5 Year chart showing % change in stock price for Tesla, Ford, Toyota, Honda, & General Motors
• Financial ratios for Tesla & General Motors (show formula used and detailed calculations); do not download/copy ratios from websites. Calculate the ratios yourself.
• Common sized income statements for Tesla & General Motors (as % total revenues)
• Common sized balance sheets (as % total assets)
PART V: REFERENCES (APA)
Grading rubric for Individual Project
• Completeness (25%) – Did the student answer all of the questions distinctly and clearly? Did the student support his/her answers? Were references included as appropriate?
• AOL Written communication rubric (25%). Posted on Blackboard.
• Quality (50%) – Does the student show understanding of the concepts and an ability to apply the concepts? Did the student show an ability to synthesize or integrate the material? Did the student think ‘out of the box’ in responding to the questions (where appropriate)?

2:Rights and law

Paper details:

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Check this video. It makes some important and controversial points. Make sense of the key arguments and then read around the criticisms.

3.6

The concept of ‘best interests’ is often invoked to morally justify making decisions for those who are temporarily or permanently unable to exercise autonomy.
Legally, the concept of best interest will ordinarily apply in emergency, life-threatening situations where a patient is unable to give consent to treatment.
‘Best interests’ is one of the basic principles of the Mental Capacity Act (2005), which states that: “An act done, or decision made, under this Act for or on behalf of a person who lacks capacity must be done, or made, in his best interests” (Section 1 (5)). Check some of the documents here (SCIE 2017) and then consider the following case:

Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993) AC 789 HL applied the concept of ‘best interests’ in support of the withdrawal of treatment from a man in a persistent vegetative state. Tony Bland was a victim of the 1989 Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster, and medical evidence was unanimous that there was no prospect whatsoever of him ever making any recovery from his persistent vegetative state.

With the agreement of his parents, the NHS Trust applied to the High Court for declarations that life-sustaining treatment (including feeding and hydration) could lawfully be discontinued and that any further medical treatment would be for the sole purpose of enabling Mr Bland to die peacefully and with dignity. The High Court agreed but the Official Solicitor, acting on behalf of Tony Bland, appealed against the decision, arguing that withholding feeding was equivalent to starving the patient to death (and thus amounted to murder or manslaughter).

The case was eventually decided by the House of Lords, who accepted the majority view of the medical profession that artificial feeding and hydration could be regarded as a form of medical treatment. Treatment could be withdrawn, they stated, when its continuance was no longer in the best interests of the patient. Therefore, Tony Bland’s treatment (including feeding and hydration) could be lawfully discontinued in order to allow him to die.

In this case, the question was not whether it was in Mr Bland’s best interests to die, but whether it was in his best interests to have his life prolonged by the continued provision of medical treatment.

However, it is arguable whether Tony Bland actually had ‘best interests’, as he was insensate. A counter-argument is that one does not necessarily have to be aware of interests for them to be morally relevant, and therefore respect for an insensate individual should (and does) persist both prior to and following death. Was the use of ‘best interests’ in the case of Tony Bland appropriate?
Create an argument either FOR or AGAINST the decision on the How well made are they? What should we add or consider too? What has been missed?

http://www.scie.org.uk/almost-there

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