Within the context of corporate governance structures, students must research, consider, analyse and provide referenced comments upon the infamous tweet by Elon Musk made on August 8, 2018, at 3:48am:

"Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured."

The task will be assessed within the following sub-tasks:

A background to the firm and its pre-existing governance structures;

An analysis describing what led to the governance flaws in the firm;

A discussion of the effects of the tweet upon the firm, the CEO and the market;

An explanation of the actions taken to redress the governance flaws in the firm by the firm and by the government.