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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

They''ve also been troubled, and Cleveland even defaulted on some bank loans in the late 1970s. Policy innovation. The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert. Louis — suffered population drops similar to Detroit''s.