10 Sep Week 4 Discussion Minghao Ji Different companies can have different focuses on investments, and even the same companies can have different priorities at different stages during their growth. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. Jobs went all in on his ideas to bring Apple back to life; the potential gain from his ideas outweighed the risks at the time since Apple didn’t have much to lose. When Tim Cook became the CEO, he was criticized to be not as visionary and aggressive as Jobs. But at this point, Apple had become a multi-billion dollar company, Tim cook has to protect its assets by being more conservative and not putting all eggs in one basket. If a project has a 90% chance to make $10millions for an organization, but at the same time, there is also a 10% chance will lead to bankruptcy, how do we determine if it’s worth spending the money? $10,000,000 x 90% – (company value) x 10% = 0 if company value $90,000,000, it’s not worth it Although all healthcare delivery organizations
Week 4 Discussion Minghao Ji Different companies can have different focuses on investments, and even the same...