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The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen memorably termed this the "growth-gap death spiral" in his 2003 book The Innovator's Solution ). Entrepreneurs often underestimate how long it will take them to produce revenues, and wildly miss how much they will have to invest to commercialize their idea. But the basic pattern continues.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Greenspan asked me to check that, and the actual line from the article was pretty close: “Asked in 2010 about those who warned that housing prices would crash, he responded, ‘Right. Look, we were and we still are pilloried for lowering the federal funds rate in 2003. For example, Shiller was saying that since 1996.’”].