Tesla : branding strategies for new products / Mohanbir Sawhney and Natalie Vazzano Kaddatz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawhney, Mohanbir, author.

Kaddatz, Natalie Vazzano, author.

Series:

SAGE business cases.

SAGE business cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business planning--Case studies.

Business planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : Kellogg School of Management, 2025.

Summary:

In this case, students assume the role of a fictional hedge fund analyst, Iván Champeau, who is conducting a pro forma financial analysis of KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC), a publicly traded conglomerate in the semiconductor capital (or semicap) equipment industry with a focus on the process control segment. The case is set in the summer of 2014, immediately after the June 30 end of KLAC's fiscal year. Champeau believes that KLAC leadership has been too conservative in its capital structure management and could increase the firm's value by leveraging the company with more debt and using the proceeds to conduct a large share-buyback program. In the case's decision point, students must choose among four options regarding how much debt to recommend that the company issue. The case's flexibility allows it to be taught as an introduction or a more advanced and nuanced approach to the concept of capital structure management through the use of debt's tax shield, counterbalanced by the potential costs of financial distress brought about by taking on more leverage.

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ISBN:

979-83-488-5226-9

OCLC:

1569208921

Publisher Number:

T300944