Musk, Tesla board chair deny report on search for new CEO

Elon Musk and Tesla are pushing back on a report that the company launched a search for its next CEO, calling it "absolutely false" and an "extremely bad breach of ethics."  The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night that Tesla’s board members reached out to numerous executive search firms around a month ago to work on a formal process to finding Musk’s successor. It attributed the development to people familiar with the discussions and noted that it happened as Tesla’s stock was sinking and some inve ...