Research Questions

Nicolas Menna Barreto

Topic:

Companies growing too quickly for their own good: Why Tesla may be losing it’s charge

1. I am interested in writing about companies growing too quickly for them to handle.
2. I am truly interested in this topic because I plan on starting my own company in the future and I think this is important for me to research so I can be better prepared in case this happens to me. I also have money invested in Tesla stocks to I want to figure out if I should keep my money there or get out.
3. What are the main factors that seem to be taking Tesla down? What are they doing right? What have companies in the same position done to survive?
4. Reasonable people do disagree about the topic. People who disagree are investors, journalists, Tesla owners, and members of the company.
5. The topic is researchable in the time I have.
6. Some subtopics are what companies have to to survive this or fail because of this.
7. I might research what happens in the opposing situation where your company is growing too slowly to survive.
8. Key terms that keep coming up are overcoming barriers to entry in an established industry, poor management, customer complaints, planning, exceed ability, and negative company culture.