MANAGING INVESTMANTS IN
CORPORATE AIRCRAFT [TURBOPROP]
Sam Robertson had received an interesting but difficult request several months previously from Wayne Jackson, president and chief executive officer of Health Services, Inc. (HSI). As vice-president of administrative services, Robertson was given the task of researching the opportunities relating to the company’s maintaining a business aircraft. HSI had never operated its own plane, and the project was therefore exciting and educational. Robertson had run into some difficult issues, including whether HSI really needed a corporate aircraft at all, which air-craft to buy, and how to arrange financing. On August 5, 1991, Robertson had two weeks to make his final recommendations