Abstract The collapse of an organization that has been fronted as having a good model often raises a lot of questions. Solyndra is one such organization that went down in the years of the recent economic downturn, despite a lot of money having been pumped into it by both the government and private investors. In this paper, we interrogate what might have gone wrong in the whole issue surround the fall of the organization, more so some of the ethical and legal issues that might have been raised as far as market analysis is concerned. Introduction In today’s challenging economic times, organizations are being affected by several internal and external factors that may sometimes be unseen until they strike hard on some operational system within the organization. Increasing commodity prices and fluctuating markets are some of the immediate factors that may contribute to the fall of an organization. The case of Solyndra is not far from these factor